Scheduling-free resource management

We investigate a resource management policy that allocates resources based on the number of available resources only. We formulate a condition on resource requesting processes, called solidity that guarantees successful termination. Processes that do not satisfy this condition can be modified to become solid. We investigate performance of the resource management policy proposed by comparing it to the theoretically found optimum for the special case. Our method can be applied in, for example, project management systems, orchestration software and workflow engines.