As multiple processor systems become more widely available, applications involving multiple concurrent processes will increase in number and importance. This increased interdependency among processes poses interesting problems in the area of processor scheduling. How should the processes be scheduled to achieve some optimal level of performance? A scheduler based on an expert system may prove to be a viable alternative to those that have been proposed and (in some cases) implemented so far.

This report describes the implementation of a learning mechanism that attempts to handle the problem of processor scheduling in such a multiprocessor environment. In effect, the Intelligent Agent tries to "learn" its own set of heuristics for optimally scheduling a set of co-operating processes. By simulating a relatively simple multiprocessor system we examine the merits of such an approach.