Subject:
Revised paper C514
From:
"Miguel Damas" <mdamas@atc.ugr.es>
Date:
Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:25:44 +0200
To:
fox@csit.fsu.edu

Dear Sir,
Please find enclosed the file (Damas_CPE.ZIP) corresponding to our paper
"Parallel Dynamic Water Supply Scheduling in a Cluster of Computers", which
has been revised in order to take into account the suggestions of the
referees. In the file (Memo.PDF) we explain the modifications and comment on
the indications of the referees.

We hope that the paper now meets the standards for publication. Thank you
for your interest.

Yours sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Miguel Damas Hermoso
Dpto. Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores
Universidad de Granadas
Facultad de Ciencias. Campus Fuentenueva s/n
E. 18071 GRANADA (Spain)
Phone: 34-958-243259
Fax: 34-958-248993


----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoffrey Fox" <fox@csit.fsu.edu> To: "Miguel Damas" <mdamas@atc.ugr.es> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 3:34 AM
Subject: C514: Parallel Dynamic Scheduling in a Cluster of Computers



> I  am pleased to append two referee reportson your paper
> > C514: Parallel Dynamic Scheduling in a Cluster of Computers
> I  believe that you cn address these issues and send us a revised paper
> which
> would be published. Please include a memo describing your response to
> the referees' comments.
> Thank you for your interest in
> Concurrency and Computation: Concurrency and Experience
> > Referee 1 *******************************************************
> Referee Report on C514: Parallel Dynamic Scheduling in a Cluster of
> Computers
> I can suggest the following changes
> 1) The authors discuss the water supply problem in one particular
> Spanish city
> How does this problem scale to other cities -- are there big cities

which

> are hundreds times bigger and so more computationally demanding. This
> could motivate problem
> > 2) The English generally reads well but tere are occasional glitches.
> For instance
> obtention page 3
> llow and nexte page 4
> most part page 5
> Please run a Spell check!
> > 3) I think section 5 could be strengthened. Limits of scaling should be
> discussed
> The figure (13) should show speed up and not time
> > Referee 2 **********************************************************
> Referee Report on C514: Parallel Dynamic Scheduling in a Cluster of
> Computers
> This is an interesting paper that should be published if the authors can
> make a few changes.
> > 1) most importantly the title must be changed. It currently suggests that
> the paper is about scheduling jobs on a cluster -- an area where there

is

> much work. Rather title should indicate that the authors are
> parallelizing'
> a scheduling application (from the Water Supply network field)
> > 2) It is well known that genetic algorithms parallelize well and a lot of
> other optimization approaches do not. What is not well known is what
> problems
> are suitable for genetic methods. Some comments on this issue would be
> good.