You like to read on Operations Management and Scheduling of Data, here is an interesting paper.

Scheduling of Data Transcription in Periodically Connected Databases

By Professor Jonathan Eckstein, et al.

Contemporary data management in applications such as pervasive systems, Web-based supply chain management, data warehouses, and Web crawlers involve the periodic transcriptio of data onto secondary devices in a networked environment. In this paper, the focus is on the scheduling of periodic data transcription in append-only environments, such as e-mail inboxes, newsgroups, technical support bulletin boards, or procurement requests.

To read the paper: http://bit.ly/LjWcTf