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The assignment problem is a fundamental aspect of distributed computing. It arises whenever the procedures or modules of a program are distributed over several interconnected computers so that program activity moves among processors as execution proceeds. The program may be serial (only one module active on one processor at a time) or parallel (several modules concurrently active on several processors). The assignment problem deals with the question of assigning modules to processors so as to minimize the cost of running a program. The cost may be time, money or some other measure of resource usage.
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Bokhari, S.H. (1997). Introduction. In: Assignment Problems in Parallel and Distributed Computing. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 32. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2003-6_1
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