Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, B29d (1992), 9 pp.
[Formerly: Publ. I.R.M.A. Strasbourg, 1993, 1993/033, p. 35-41.]

Walter Gutjahr and Georg Pflug

Average Execution Times of Series-Parallel Networks

Abstract. The papers investigates a model for series-parallel processing structures developed by E. Gelenbe. We show that, under the so-called combinatorial distribution assumption, the average total execution time of a series-parallel processing structure cannot grow essentially slower than n1/2, where n is the number of primitive tasks in the structure.


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