Scheduling is the process of deciding how to commit resources between a variety of possible tasks. Time can be specified (scheduling a flight to leave at 8:00) or floating as part of a sequence of events.
The word may also refer to:
- Broadcast programming, the minute planning of the content of a radio or television broadcast channel
- Job scheduler, an enterprise software application in charge of unattended background executions
- Schedule (project management), a listing of milestones, activities, and deliverables, usually with dates
- Schedule (resource), aids in the logistical planning for sharing resources among several entities
- Schedule (workplace), ensuring that an organization has sufficient staffing levels at all times
- Scheduling (computing), the way various processes are assigned in multitasking and multiprocessing operating system design
- Process scheduler
- Network scheduler
- Open-shop scheduling, Job Shop Scheduling, Flow Shop Scheduling Problem, an optimization problems in computer science
- I/O scheduling, the order in which I/O requests are submitted to a block device in Operating systems
- Scheduling maintenance
- Scheduling (production processes), the planning of the production or the operation
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