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Deep learning has been effectively applied to many discrete optimization problems. However, learning-based scheduling on unrelated parallel machines remains particularly difficult to design. Not only do the numbers of jobs and machines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Diego Hitzges , Guillaume Sagnol

We study scheduling problems on a machine with varying speed. Assuming a known speed function we ask for a cost-efficient scheduling solution. Our main result is a PTAS for minimizing the total weighted completion time in this setting. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Nicole Megow , José Verschae

We study the online busy time scheduling model on heterogeneous machines. In our setting, jobs with uniform length arrive online with a deadline that becomes known to the algorithm at the job's arrival time. An algorithm has access to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Gruia Calinescu , Sami Davies , Samir Khuller , Shirley Zhang

We consider non-clairvoyant scheduling with online precedence constraints, where an algorithm is oblivious to any job dependencies and learns about a job only if all of its predecessors have been completed. Given strong impossibility…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Alexandra Lassota , Alexander Lindermayr , Nicole Megow , Jens Schlöter

Scheduling in the factory setting is compounded by computational complexity and temporal uncertainty. Together, these two factors guarantee that the process of constructing an optimal schedule will be costly and the chances of executing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-12 B. R. Fox , Karl G. Kempf

We are given a set of jobs, each one specified by its release date, its deadline and its processing volume (work), and a single (or a set of) speed-scalable processor(s). We adopt the standard model in speed-scaling in which if a processor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Evripidis Bampis , Giorgio Lucarelli , Ioannis Nemparis

In the paper we consider the problem of scheduling $n$ identical jobs on 4 uniform machines with speeds $s_1 \geq s_2 \geq s_3 \geq s_4,$ respectively. Our aim is to find a schedule with a minimum possible length. We assume that jobs are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-08 H. Furmanczyk , M. Kubale

This paper provides three nearly-optimal algorithms for scheduling $t$ jobs in the $\mathsf{CLIQUE}$ model. First, we present a deterministic scheduling algorithm that runs in $O(\mathsf{GlobalCongestion} + \mathsf{dilation})$ rounds for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Keren Censor-Hillel , Yannic Maus , Volodymyr Polosukhin

We investigate the recoverable robust single machine scheduling problem under interval uncertainty. In this setting, jobs have first-stage processing times p and second-stage processing times q and we aim to find a first-stage and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Matthew Bold , Marc Goerigk

The problem of scheduling with testing in the framework of explorable uncertainty models environments where some preliminary action can influence the duration of a task. In the model, each job has an unknown processing time that can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Susanne Albers , Alexander Eckl

We study the classical scheduling problem on parallel machines %with precedence constraints where the precedence graph has the bounded depth $h$. Our goal is to minimize the maximum completion time. We focus on developing approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

We formulate and study a fundamental search and detection problem, Schedule Optimization, motivated by a variety of real-world applications, ranging from monitoring content changes on the web, social networks, and user activities to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Ahmad Mahmoody , Evgenios M. Kornaropoulos , Eli Upfal

A challenging category of robotics problems arises when sensing incurs substantial costs. This paper examines settings in which a robot wishes to limit its observations of state, for instance, motivated by specific considerations of energy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Patrick Zhong , Federico Rossi , Dylan A. Shell

The NP-hard MATERIAL CONSUMPTION SCHEDULING Problem and closely related problems have been thoroughly studied since the 1980's. Roughly speaking, the problem deals with minimizing the makespan when scheduling jobs that consume non-renewable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Matthias Bentert , Robert Bredereck , Péter Györgyi , Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Rolf Niedermeier

The (Non-Preemptive) Throughput Maximization problem is a natural and fundamental scheduling problem. We are given $n$ jobs, where each job $j$ is characterized by a processing time and a time window, contained in a global interval $[0,T)$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alexander Armbruster , Fabrizio Grandoni , Antoine Tinguely , Andreas Wiese

We study the online scheduling problem where the machines need to be calibrated before processing any jobs. To calibrate a machine, it will take $\lambda$ time steps as the activation time, and then the machine will remain calibrated status…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Zuzhi Chen , Jialin Zhang

In scheduling problems, deterministic task durations are often assumed. This usually does not capture reality and may lead to schedules that are not robust to (small) changes to these task lengths. The use of stochastic task durations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Philip de Bruin , Bram Elderhorst , Marjan van den Akker , Han Hoogeveen

Interval scheduling is a basic problem in the theory of algorithms and a classical task in combinatorial optimization. We develop a set of techniques for partitioning and grouping jobs based on their starting and ending times, that enable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Spencer Compton , Slobodan Mitrović , Ronitt Rubinfeld

We study the problem of scheduling precedence-constrained jobs on heterogenous machines in the presence of non-uniform job and machine communication delays. We are given as input $n$ unit size precedence-ordered jobs and $m$ related…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Rajmohan Rajaraman , David Stalfa , Sheng Yang

This paper proposes a dynamic primal-dual type algorithm to solve the optimal scheduling problem in wireless networks subject to uncertain parameters, which are generated by stochastic network processes such as random packet arrivals,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Qiao Li , Rohit Negi