Notice of RetractionA method for scheduling last installment in a heterogeneous multi-installment system

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During the last decade, the use of parallel and distributed systems has become more common. In these systems, a huge chunk of data or computation is distributed among many systems in order to obtain better performance. Dividing data is one of the challenges in this type of systems. Divisible Load Theory (DLT) is one of the old proposed method for scheduling data distribution in parallel or distributed systems. In many researches carried out in this field, it was assumed that all the processors are dedicated for grid system but that is not always true in real systems. The limited number of studies which attended to this reality assumed that systems are homogeneous and presented some algorithms or closed-formulas for scheduling jobs in a System with Different Processors Availability Time (SDPAT). One of the examples of arbitrary processor´s available time is the last installment in multi-installment systems. In this type of systems, usually two different methods are used for scheduling internal and the last installments. In this article, we will present a method for scheduling the last installment in a heterogeneous multi-installment system.