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The tie-line scheduling problem in a multi-area power system seeks to optimize tie-line power flows across areas that are independently operated by different system operators (SOs). In this paper, we leverage the theory of multi-parametric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Ye Guo , Subhonmesh Bose , Lang Tong

We consider the following shared-resource scheduling problem: Given a set of jobs $J$, for each $j\in J$ we must schedule a job-specific processing volume of $v_j>0$. A total resource of $1$ is available at any time. Jobs have a resource…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Christoph Damerius , Peter Kling , Florian Schneider

Scheduling of personnel in a hospital environment is vital to improving the service provided to patients and balancing the workload assigned to clinicians. Many approaches have been tried and successfully applied to generate efficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-21 David Landsman , Huiting Ma , Jesse Knight , Kevin Gough , Sharmistha Mishra

We give the first algorithm for testing the feasibility of a system of sporadic real-time tasks on a set of identical processors, solving one major open problem in the area of multiprocessor real-time scheduling [S.K. Baruah and K. Pruhs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-28 Vincenzo Bonifaci , Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela

In Real-time system, utilization based schedulability test is a common approach to determine whether or not tasks can be admitted without violating deadline requirements. The exact problem has previously been proven intractable even upon…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-01-11 Jagbeer Singh

To deliver high performance in power limited systems, architects have turned to using heterogeneous systems, either CPU+GPU or mixed CPU-hardware systems. However, in systems with different processor types and task affinities, scheduling…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Zhuo Chen , Diana Marculescu

Serving systems for Large Language Models (LLMs) improve throughput by processing several requests concurrently. However, multiplexing hardware resources between concurrent requests involves non-trivial scheduling decisions. Practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Ferdi Kossmann , Bruce Fontaine , Daya Khudia , Michael Cafarella , Samuel Madden

Calculating the most efficient schedule of work in a neural network compiler is a difficult task. There are many parameters to be accounted for that can positively or adversely affect that schedule depending on their configuration - How…

Consider a system in which tasks of different execution times arrive continuously and have to be executed by a set of processors that are prone to crashes and restarts. In this paper we model and study the impact of parallelism and failures…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Antonio Fernández Anta , Chryssis Georgiou , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Elli Zavou

We study the problem of scheduling a general computational DAG on multiple processors in a 2-level memory hierarchy. This setting is a natural generalization of several prominent models in the literature, and it simultaneously captures…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Pál András Papp , Toni Böhnlein , A. N. Yzelman

A new class of multi agent single machine scheduling problems is introduced, where each job is associated with a self interested agent with a utility function decreasing in completion time. We aim to achieve a fair solution by maximizing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Gaia Nicosia , Andrea Pacifici , Ulrich Pferschy

While previous work on energy-efficient algorithms focused on assumption that tasks can be assigned to any processor, we initially study the problem of task scheduling on restricted parallel processors. The objective is to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Xibo Jin , Fa Zhang , Ying Song , Liya Fan , Zhiyong Liu

This paper studies the problem of optimally allocating a cash injection into a financial system in distress. Given a one-period borrower-lender network in which all debts are due at the same time and have the same seniority, we address the…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2014-12-18 Zhang Li , Xiaojun Lin , Borja Peleato-Inarrea , Ilya Pollak

We consider a parallel system of $m$ identical machines prone to unpredictable crashes and restarts, trying to cope with the continuous arrival of tasks to be executed. Tasks have different computational requirements (i.e., processing time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Elli Zavou , Antonio Fernández Anta

With the current trend of multiprocessor machines towards more and more hierarchical architectures, exploiting the full computational power requires careful distribution of execution threads and data so as to limit expensive remote memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Samuel Thibault

We consider the Windows Scheduling problem. The problem is a restricted version of Unit-Fractions Bin Packing, and it is also called Inventory Replenishment in the context of Supply Chain. In brief, the problem is to schedule the use of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-07 Martin Farach-Colton , Katia Leal , Miguel A. Mosteiro , Christopher Thraves

As the artificial intelligence community advances into the era of large models with billions of parameters, distributed training and inference have become essential. While various parallelism strategies-data, model, sequence, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Ruifeng She , Bowen Pang , Kai Li , Zehua Liu , Tao Zhong

Coflow is a recently proposed network abstraction to capture communication patterns in data centers. The coflow scheduling problem in large data centers is one of the most important $NP$-hard problems. Previous research on coflow scheduling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Chi-Yeh Chen

State machine replication is standard approach to fault tolerance. One of the key assumptions of state machine replication is that replicas must execute operations deterministically and thus serially. To benefit from multi-core servers,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Eduardo Alchieri , Fernando Dotti , Fernando Pedone

The emerging large-scale and data-hungry algorithms require the computations to be delegated from a central server to several worker nodes. One major challenge in the distributed computations is to tackle delays and failures caused by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Alejandro Cohen , Guillaume Thiran , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Muriel Médard