The arrangement of a number of related operations in time. There are several Kinds of scheduling related to computers: instruction scheduling - sequencing the instructions executed by the CPUmultitasKing ("process scheduling") - sharing a CPU between several processes applicationsoftware to help organise your daily meetings etc. tasK scheduling - algorithms to solve the general problem of satisfying time and resource constraints between a number of tasKs. Compare planning. (1998-04-25)