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We study bicriteria versions of Makespan Minimization on Unrelated Machines and Santa Claus by allowing a constrained number of rejections. Given an instance of Makespan Minimization on Unrelated Machines where the optimal makespan for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Sami Davies , Venkatesan Guruswami , Xuandi Ren

MapReduce is a popular parallel computing paradigm for Big Data processing in clusters and data centers. It is observed that different job execution orders and MapReduce slot configurations for a MapReduce workload have significantly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Wenhong Tian , Guangchun Luo , Ling Tian , Aiguo Chen

We study the scheduling problem of makespan minimization while taking machine conflicts into account. Machine conflicts arise in various settings, e.g., shared resources for pre- and post-processing of tasks or spatial restrictions. In this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Moritz Buchem , Linda Kleist , Daniel Schmidt genannt Waldschmidt

We consider the classical makespan minimization scheduling problem where $n$ jobs must be scheduled on $m$ identical machines. Using weighted random sampling, we developed two sublinear time approximation schemes: one for the case where $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

We consider the problem of scheduling $n$ precedence-constrained jobs on $m$ uniformly-related machines in the presence of an arbitrary, fixed communication delay $\rho$. We consider a model that allows job duplication, i.e. processing of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Biswaroop Maiti , Rajmohan Rajaraman , David Stalfa , Zoya Svitkina , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Linear programming is a powerful method in combinatorial optimization with many applications in theory and practice. For solving a linear program quickly it is desirable to have a formulation of small size for the given problem. A useful…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Hans Raj Tiwary , Victor Verdugo , Andreas Wiese

We study stochastic combinatorial optimization problems where the objective is to minimize the expected maximum load (a.k.a.\ the makespan). In this framework, we have a set of $n$ tasks and $m$ resources, where each task $j$ uses some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Anupam Gupta , Amit Kumar , Viswanath Nagarajan , Xiangkun Shen

We consider a natural generalization of classical scheduling problems in which using a time unit for processing a job causes some time-dependent cost which must be paid in addition to the standard scheduling cost. We study the scheduling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Lin Chen , Nicole Megow , Roman Rischke , Leen Stougie , José Verschae

We are given a set of $n$ jobs that have to be executed on a set of $m$ speed-scalable machines that can vary their speeds dynamically using the energy model introduced in [Yao et al., FOCS'95]. Every job $j$ is characterized by its release…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Eric Angel , Evripidis Bampis , Vincent Chau , Nguyen Kim Thang

We study envy-free mechanisms for scheduling tasks on unrelated machines (agents) that approximately minimize the makespan. For indivisible tasks, we put forward an envy-free poly-time mechanism that approximates the minimal makespan to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-08 Edith Cohen , Michal Feldman , Amos Fiat , Haim Kaplan , Svetlana Olonetsky

Machine scheduling problems involving conflict jobs can be seen as a constrained version of the classical scheduling problem, in which some jobs are conflict in the sense that they cannot be proceeded simultaneously on different machines.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Minh Hoàng Hà , Dinh Quy Ta , Trung Thanh Nguyen

The Makespan Scheduling problem is an extensively studied NP-hard problem, and its simplest version looks for an allocation approach for a set of jobs with deterministic processing times to two identical machines such that the makespan is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Feng Shi , Daoyu Huang , Xiankun Yan , Frank Neumann

Makespan minimization on identical parallel machines is a classical scheduling problem. We consider the online scenario where a sequence of $n$ jobs has to be scheduled non-preemptively on $m$ machines so as to minimize the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Susanne Albers , Matthias Hellwig

In malleable job scheduling, jobs can be executed simultaneously on multiple machines with the processing time depending on the number of allocated machines. In this setting, jobs are required to be executed non-preemptively and in unison,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Dimitris Fotakis , Jannik Matuschke , Orestis Papadigenopoulos

We consider the problem of scheduling jobs with equal lengths on uniform parallel batch machines with non-identical capacities where each job can only be processed on a specified subset of machines called its processing set. For the case of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Shuguang Li

We consider the problem of scheduling multiprocessor jobs to minimize the total completion time under the given energy budget. Each multiprocessor job requires more than one processor at the same moment of time. Processors may operate at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Alexander Kononov , Yulia Kovalenko

This paper studies Makespan Minimization in the secretary model. Formally, jobs, specified by their processing times, are presented in a uniformly random order. An online algorithm has to assign each job permanently and irrevocably to one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Susanne Albers , Maximilian Janke

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

We study a scheduling problem in which jobs may be split into parts, where the parts of a split job may be processed simultaneously on more than one machine. Each part of a job requires a setup time, however, on the machine where the job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Frans Schalekamp , Rene Sitters , Suzanne van der Ster , Leen Stougie , Victor Verdugo , Anke van Zuylen

In a classical scheduling problem, we are given a set of $n$ jobs of unit length along with precedence constraints, and the goal is to find a schedule of these jobs on $m$ identical machines that minimizes the makespan. Using the standard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Jesper Nederlof , Céline M. F. Swennenhuis , Karol Węgrzycki