... activity¹

We use the term independent activity to denote a unit of computation for which the application wishes to perform separate resource allocation and accounting; for example, the processing associated with a single HTTP request.

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... priority²

In this paper, we use the term priority loosely to mean the current scheduling precedence of a resource principal, as defined by the scheduling policy based on the principal's scheduling parameters. The scheduling policy in use may not be priority based.

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