that may guarantee reduced makespan and preemptions with respect to an available fleet of mfds or electronic devices the exemplary embodiments further propose a method for computing the usable size of available excess capacity with respect to a burstiness and time of day aware scheduler the exemplary embodiments also propose profiling based on burstiness and time of day dependent availability so as to decide if a fleet of mfds or electronic devices needs to be provisioned with additional computing capacity the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure further propose the development of a burstiness metric with respect to a plurality of mfds or electronic devices and server workload a method is presented for calculating the burstiness metric without requiring too much computational overhead additionally the exemplary embodiments demonstrate with real workload that a specified quantum of additional workload may be scheduled subject to a quantifiable impact e g enabling the specification of service level agreements a simulation based tool to judge the impact on a service level agreement sla given current capacity and workload is also provided the simulation tool may capture a parameterizable partial availability state that models states less intensive than printing including riping but significantly more intensive than the idle state the.