Sustainable manufacturing requires simultaneous consideration of economic,
environmental, and social implications associated with the production and delivery of goods …

Energy expenditure has become a significant fraction of data center operating costs.
Recently," geographical load balancing" has been suggested to reduce energy cost by …

Energy-efficient algorithms Page 1 86 communications of the acm | may 2010 | vol. 53 | no. 5
review articles Doi:10.1145/1735223.1735245 algorithmic solutions can help reduce energy …

In this article we have shown that receding horizon control offers a straightforward method
for designing feedback controllers that deliver good performance while respecting complex …

Speed scaling is a power management technique that involves dynamically changing the
speed of a processor. We study policies for setting the speed of the processor for both of the …

A central question in designing server farms today is how to efficiently provision the number
of servers to extract the best performance under unpredictable demand patterns while not …

Scheduling with arbitrary due dates and no idle time permitted between jobs with the
objective of minimizing the total earliness and tardiness has a variety of industry …

We study scheduling as a means to address the increasing energy concerns in
manufacturing enterprises. In particular, we consider a flow shop scheduling problem with a …

Energy use of computer communication systems has quickly become a vital design
consideration. One effective method for reducing energy consumption is dynamic speed …

We study scheduling problems in battery-operated computing devices, aiming at schedules
with low total energy consumption. While most of the previous work has focused on finding …