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)