Multiprocessor task assignment with fuzzy Hopfield neural network clustering technique

Most scheduling applications have been demonstrated as NP-complete problems. A variety of schemes are introduced in solving those scheduling applications, such as linear programming, neural networks, and fuzzy logic. In this paper, a new approach of first analogising a scheduling problem to a clustering problem and then using a fuzzy Hopfield neural network clustering technique to solve the scheduling problem is proposed. This fuzzy Hopfield neural network algorithm integrates fuzzy c-means clustering strategies into a Hopfield neural network. This investigation utilises this new approach to demonstrate the feasibility of resolving a multiprocessor scheduling problem with no process migration and constrained times (execution time and deadline). Each process is regarded as a data sample, and every processor is taken as a cluster. Simulation results illustrate that imposing the fuzzy Hopfield neural network onto the proposed energy function provides an appropriate approach to solving this class of scheduling problem.