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This paper considers the online machine minimization problem, a basic real time scheduling problem. The setting for this problem consists of n jobs that arrive over time, where each job has a deadline by which it must be completed. The goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Sungjin Im , Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Clifford Stein

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 considers the basic problem of scheduling jobs online with preemption to maximize the number of jobs completed by their deadline on $m$ identical machines. The main result is an $O(1)$ competitive deterministic algorithm for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Clifford Stein , Rudy Zhou

We explore the machine-minimizing job scheduling problem, which has a rich history in the line of research, under an online setting. We consider systems with arbitrary job arrival times, arbitrary job deadlines, and unit job execution time.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Mong-Jen Kao , Jian-Jia Chen , Ignaz Rutter , Dorothea Wagner

In this paper, we consider the online version of the machine minimization problem (introduced by Chuzhoy et al., FOCS 2004), where the goal is to schedule a set of jobs with release times, deadlines, and processing lengths on a minimum…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Nikhil Devanur , Konstantin Makarychev , Debmalya Panigrahi , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

Online load balancing for heterogeneous machines aims to minimize the makespan (maximum machine workload) by scheduling arriving jobs with varying sizes on different machines. In the adversarial setting, where an adversary chooses not only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Sungjin Im , Ravi Kumar , Shi Li , Aditya Petety , Manish Purohit

In the online sorting problem, a sequence of $n$ numbers in $[0, 1]$ (including $\{0,1\}$) have to be inserted in an array of size $m \ge n$ so as to minimize the sum of absolute differences between pairs of numbers occupying consecutive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yossi Azar , Debmalya Panigrahi , Or Vardi

This paper studies the online scheduling problem of minimizing total flow time for $n$ jobs on $m$ identical machines. A classical $\Omega(n)$ lower bound shows that no deterministic single-machine algorithm can beat the trivial greedy,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yutong Geng , Enze Sun , Zonghan Yang , Yuhao Zhang

We consider the classical online scheduling problem P||C_{max} in which jobs are released over list and provide a nearly optimal online algorithm. More precisely, an online algorithm whose competitive ratio is at most (1+\epsilon) times…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Lin Chen , Deshi Ye , Guochuan Zhang

We consider the following scheduling problem. There is a single machine and the jobs will arrive for completion online. Each job j is preemptive and, upon its arrival, its other characteristics are immediately revealed to the machine: the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Patrick Loiseau , Xiaohu Wu

We analyze the problem of job scheduling with preempting on weighted jobs that can have either linear or exponential penalties. We review relevant literature on the problem and create and describe a few online algorithms that perform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Frederick Tang , Fareed Sheriff , Andrew Wang

We investigate online scheduling with commitment for parallel identical machines. Our objective is to maximize the total processing time of accepted jobs. As soon as a job has been submitted, the commitment constraint forces us to decide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Chris Schwiegelshohn , Uwe Schwiegelshohn

We consider the Online Rent Minimization problem, where online jobs with release times, deadlines, and processing times must be scheduled on machines that can be rented for a fixed length period of $T$. The objective is to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Enze Sun , Zonghan Yang , Yuhao Zhang

We consider the problem of online preemptive scheduling on a single machine to minimize the total flow time. In clairvoyant scheduling, where job processing times are revealed upon arrival, the Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Alexander Lindermayr , Guido Schäfer , Jens Schlöter , Leen Stougie

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

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 the Online Machine Covering problem jobs, defined by their sizes, arrive one by one and have to be assigned to $m$ parallel and identical machines, with the goal of maximizing the load of the least-loaded machine. In this work, we study…

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

Online algorithm has been an emerging area of interest for researchers in various domains of computer science. The online $m$-machine list scheduling problem introduced by Graham has gained theoretical as well as practical significance in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Rakesh Mohanty , Debasis Dwibedy , Shreeya Swagatika Sahoo

In the Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) problem, 2 m requests arrive over time at points of a metric space. An online algorithm has to connect these requests in pairs, but a decision to match may be postponed till a more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Marcin Bienkowski , Artur Kraska , Hsiang-Hsuan Liu , Paweł Schmidt

In online makespan minimization a sequence of jobs $\sigma = J_1,..., J_n$ has to be scheduled on $m$ identical parallel machines so as to minimize the maximum completion time of any job. We investigate the problem with an essentially new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Susanne Albers , Matthias Hellwig
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