A feature model and development approach for schedulers

Schedulers decide when to execute what in a system. They often work in constrained environments, where these decisions have high impact on performance. Since schedulers should be designed according to a system's needs, it is imperative that scheduling requirements are well defined. Building a scheduler that satisfies these requirements is not a trivial task. In this position paper we present our initial work and ideas on a domain-specific framework for scheduling. We introduce our feature model of the problem space of scheduling and explain how it fits within a framework. Furthermore we present our ideas on how to make the scheduler framework modular by using an aspect oriented approac