Greedy Heuristics for Automatic Synthesis of Efficient Block-Structured Scheduling Processes from Declarative Specifications

Abstract

This paper introduces a new Greedy heuristic algorithm for the automatic synthesis of block-structured scheduling processes that satisfy a given set of declarative ordering constraints, as well as basic theoretical results that support the correctness of this algorithm. We propose two heuristics that can be used with this algorithm: hierarchical decomposition heuristic and critical path heuristic. We also present initial experimental results supporting the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed algorithm and heuristics.