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We consider the online resource minimization problem in which jobs with hard deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates. The task is to determine a feasible schedule on a minimum number of machines. We rigorously study this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Lin Chen , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior

This paper addresses the problem of scheduling jobs on identical machines with conflict constraints, where certain jobs cannot be scheduled simultaneously on different machines. We focus on the case where conflicts can be represented by a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Nour ElHouda Tellache , Lydia Aoudia , Mourad Boudhar

We study the problem of non-preemptively scheduling $n$ jobs, each job $j$ with a release time $t_j$, a deadline $d_j$, and a processing time $p_j$, on $m$ parallel identical machines. Cieliebak et al. (2004) considered the two constraints…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-25 René van Bevern , Rolf Niedermeier , Ondřej Suchý

The problem of scheduling conflicting jobs on parallel machines consists in assigning a set of jobs to a set of machines so that no two conflicting jobs are allocated to the same machine, and the maximum processing time among all machines…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Phablo F. S. Moura , Roel Leus , Hande Yaman

We investigate a single machine rescheduling problem that arises from an unexpected machine unavailability, after the given set of jobs has already been scheduled to minimize the total weighted completion time. Such a disruption is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Wenchang Luo , Taibo Luo , Randy Goebel , Guohui Lin

We consider the precedence-constrained scheduling problem to minimize the total weighted completion time. For a single machine several $2$-approximation algorithms are known, which are based on linear programming and network flows. We show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Sven Jäger , Philipp Warode

We study the shared processor scheduling problem with a single shared processor where a unit time saving (weight) obtained by processing a job on the shared processor depends on the job. A polynomial-time optimization algorithm has been…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Dariusz Dereniowski , Wieslaw Kubiak

We consider algorithms to schedule packets with values and deadlines in a size-bounded buffer. At any time, the buffer can store at most B packets. Packets arrive over time. Each packet has a non-negative value and an integer deadline. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-01 Fei Li

We study the problem of scheduling jobs on parallel machines minimizing the total completion time, with each job using exactly one resource. First, we derive fundamental properties of the problem and show that the problem is polynomially…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-11-19 T. Janssen , C. Swennenhuis , A. Bitar , T. Bosman , D. Gijswijt , L. van Iersel , S. Dauzére-Pérès , C. Yugma

We consider online scheduling on unrelated (heterogeneous) machines in a speed-oblivious setting, where an algorithm is unaware of the exact job-dependent processing speeds. We show strong impossibility results for clairvoyant and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Alexander Lindermayr , Nicole Megow , Martin Rapp

We consider a recently introduced fair repetitive scheduling problem involving a set of clients, each asking for their associated job to be daily scheduled on a single machine across a finite planning horizon. The goal is to determine a job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Danny Hermelin , Danny Segev , Dvir Shabtay

We revisit the classical problem of minimizing the total flow time of jobs on a single machine in the online setting where jobs arrive over time. It has long been known that the Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT) algorithm is optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Anupam Gupta , Haim Kaplan , Alexander Lindermayr , Jens Schlöter , Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai

We consider a natural scheduling problem which arises in many distributed computing frameworks. Jobs with diverse resource requirements (e.g. memory requirements) arrive over time and must be served by a cluster of servers, each with a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Konstantinos Psychas , Javad Ghaderi

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

This paper considers scheduling on identical machines. The scheduling objective considered in this paper generalizes most scheduling minimization problems. In the problem, there are $n$ jobs and each job $j$ is associated with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Benjamin Moseley

In this paper, we consider an NP-hard problem of scheduling a set of jobs of equal processing time on two machines, given a partial precedence order on the set of jobs, with an objective to minimize the makespan. An approximation algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Anna Romanova

We study shared multi-processor scheduling problem where each job can be executed on its private processor and simultaneously on one of many processors shared by all jobs in order to reduce the job's completion time due to processing time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Dariusz Dereniowski , Wieslaw Kubiak

This paper presents different methods for solving parallel machine scheduling problems with precedence constraints and setup times between the jobs. Limited discrepancy search methods mixed with local search principles, dominance conditions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-02-19 Bernat Gacias , Christian Artigues , Pierre Lopez

This paper investigates the non-clairvoyant parallel machine scheduling problem with prediction, with the objective of minimizing the makespan. Improved lower bounds for the problem and competitive ratios of online algorithms with respect…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Tianqi Chen , Zhiyi Tan

We study the general scheduling problem (GSP) which generalizes and unifies several well-studied preemptive single-machine scheduling problems, such as weighted flow time, weighted sum of completion time, and minimizing the total weight of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Alexander Armbruster , Lars Rohwedder , Andreas Wiese