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We consider the problem of minimizing the makespan on batch processing identical machines, subject to compatibility constraints, where two jobs are compatible if they can be processed simultaneously in a same batch. These constraints are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Khaoula Bouakaz , Mourad Boudhar

Workflows and role-based access control models need to be suitably merged, in order to allow users to perform processes in a correct way, according to the given data access policies and the temporal constraints. Given a mapping between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Carlo Combi , Luca Viganó , Matteo Zavatteri

Cloud Computing is a paradigm of both parallel processing and distributed computing. It offers computing facilities as a utility service in pay as par use manner. Virtualization, self service provisioning, elasticity and pay per use are the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Syed Arshad Ali , Mansaf Alam

Work-stealing is a widely used technique for balancing irregular parallel workloads, and most modern runtime systems adopt lock-free work-stealing deques to reduce contention and improve scalability. However, existing algorithms are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Raja Sai Nandhan Yadav Kataru , Danial Davarnia , Ali Jannesari

Multi-server queueing systems are widely used models for job scheduling in machine learning, wireless networks, crowdsourcing, and healthcare systems. This paper considers a multi-server system with multiple servers and multiple types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Zixian Yang , R. Srikant , Lei Ying

Task parallelism as employed by the OpenMP task construct, although ideal for tackling irregular problems or typical producer/consumer schemes, bears some potential for performance bottlenecks if locality of data access is important, which…

Performance · Computer Science 2009-02-12 Markus Wittmann , Georg Hager

Real-time systems increasingly use multicore processors in order to satisfy thermal, power, and computational requirements. To exploit the architectural parallelism offered by the multicore processors, parallel task models, scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Niklas Ueter , Mario Günzel , Jian-Jia Chen

In this paper, we consider the parameterized complexity of the following scheduling problem. We must schedule a number of jobs on $m$ machines, where each job has unit length, and the graph of precedence constraints consists of a set of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Hans L. Bodlaender , Marieke van der Wegen

One typical use case of large-scale distributed computing in data centers is to decompose a computation job into many independent tasks and run them in parallel on different machines, sometimes known as the "embarrassingly parallel"…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-07 Da Wang , Gauri Joshi , Gregory Wornell

Social dynamics on a network may be accelerated or decelerated depending on which pairs of individuals in the network communicate early and which pairs do later. The order with which the links in a given network are sequentially used, which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-18 Naoki Masuda

Scheduling jobs with precedence constraints on a set of identical machines to minimize the total processing time (makespan) is a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization. In practical settings such as cloud computing, jobs are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Konstantin Makarychev , Debmalya Panigrahi

We consider online preemptive scheduling of jobs arriving one by one, to be assigned to two identical machines, with the goal of makespan minimization. We study the effect of selecting the best solution out of two independent solutions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Leah Epstein

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

In serial batch (s-batch) scheduling, jobs from similar families are grouped into batches and processed sequentially to avoid repetitive setups that are required when processing consecutive jobs of different families. Despite its large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Jorge A. Huertas , Pascal Van Hentenryck

We study the parameterized complexity of scheduling unit-time jobs on parallel, identical machines under generalized precedence constraints for minimization of the makespan and the sum of completion times. In our setting, each job is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Christina Büsing , Maurice Draeger , Corinna Mathwieser

Efficient job-shop scheduling with transportation resources is critical for high-performance manufacturing. With the rise of "decentralized factories", multi-agent reinforcement learning has emerged as a promising approach for the combined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Moritz Link , Jonathan Hoss , Noah Klarmann

Multicore shared cache processors pose a challenge for designers of embedded systems who try to achieve minimal and predictable execution time of workloads consisting of several jobs. To address this challenge the cache is statically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Avinatan Hassidim , Haim Kaplan , Omry Tuval

There is a growing interest in development of in-network dispersed computing paradigms that leverage the computing capabilities of heterogeneous resources dispersed across the network for processing massive amount of data is collected at…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Chien-Sheng Yang , Ramtin Pedarsani , A. Salman Avestimehr

To keep pace with Moore's law, chip designers have focused on increasing the number of cores per chip rather than single core performance. In turn, modern jobs are often designed to run on any number of cores. However, to effectively…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Benjamin Berg , Jan-Pieter Dorsman , Mor Harchol-Balter

We consider different online algorithms for a generalized scheduling problem for parallel machines, described in details in the first section. This problem is the generalization of the classical parallel machine scheduling problem, when the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Istvan Szalkai , Gyorgy Dosa