earliest deadline first

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earliest deadline first - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  earliest deadline first
  
     <operating system, algorithm> (EDF) A strategy for CPU or
     disk access scheduling.  With EDF, the task with the
     earliest deadline is always executed first.
  
     Scan-EDF is an example.
  
     (1995-11-15)