Round Robin

A round robin is an arrangement of choosing all elements in a groupequally in some rational order, usually from the top to the bottom of alist and then starting again at the top of the list and so on. A simpleway to think of round robin is that it is about "taking turns." Used asan adjective, round robin becomes "round-robin."

 

In computer operation, one method of having different program processtake turns using the resources of the computer is to limit each processto a certain short time period, then suspending that process to giveanother process a turn (or "time-slice"). This is often described asround-robin process scheduling.

 

In sports tournaments and othergames, round-robin scheduling arranges to have all teams or playerstake turns playing each other, with the winner emerging from thesuccession of events.

A round-robin story is one that is startedby one person and then continued sucessively by others in turn. Whetheran author can get additional turns, how many lines each person cancontribute, and how the story can be ended depend on the rules. SomeWeb sites have been created for the telling of round robin stories byeach person posting the next part of the story as part of an onlineconference thread .

 

 

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