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We present a number of novel algorithms, based on mathematical optimization formulations, in order to solve a homogeneous multiprocessor scheduling problem, while minimizing the total energy consumption. In particular, for a system with a…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Mason Thammawichai , Eric C. Kerrigan

Finding a \emph{single} best solution is the most common objective in combinatorial optimization problems. However, such a single solution may not be applicable to real-world problems as objective functions and constraints are only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Tesshu Hanaka , Masashi Kiyomi , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yusuke Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Yota Otachi

Numerous multi-objective evolutionary algorithms have been designed for constrained optimisation over past two decades. The idea behind these algorithms is to transform constrained optimisation problems into multi-objective optimisation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Tao Xu , Jun He , Changjing Shang

We show that, in many settings, the worst-case performance of a distributed optimization algorithm is independent of the number of agents in the system, and can thus be computed in the fundamental case with just two agents. This result…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Sebastien Colla , Julien M. Hendrickx

Many important computational problems require utilization of high performance computing (HPC) systems that consist of multi-level structures combining higher and higher numbers of devices with various characteristics. Utilizing full power…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Paweł Rościszewski

A heterogeneous architecture composed by a host and an accelerator must frequently deal with situations where several independent tasks are available to be offloaded onto the accelerator. These tasks can be generated by concurrent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-03 A. J. Lázaro-Muñoz , J. M. González-Linares , J. Gómez-Luna , N. Guil

This paper considers a network of collaborating agents for local resource allocation subject to nonlinear model constraints. In many applications, it is required (or desirable) that the solution be anytime feasible in terms of satisfying…

Optimizations in a traditional compiler are applied sequentially, with each optimization destructively modifying the program to produce a transformed program that is then passed to the next optimization. We present a new approach for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Ross Tate , Michael Stepp , Zachary Tatlock , Sorin Lerner

In a typical Internet-of-Things setting that involves scientific applications, a target computation can be evaluated in many different ways depending on the split of computations among various devices. On the one hand, different…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Aravind Sankaran , Paolo Bientinesi

This paper considers the scheduling of stochastic jobs on parallel identical machines to minimize the expected total weighted completion time. While this is a classical problem with a significant body of research on approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Marc Uetz , Rudy Zhou

Distributed optimization algorithms are widely used in many industrial machine learning applications. However choosing the appropriate algorithm and cluster size is often difficult for users as the performance and convergence rate of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Xinghao Pan , Shivaram Venkataraman , Zizheng Tai , Joseph Gonzalez

In parallel iterative applications, computational efficiency is essential for addressing large problems. Load imbalance is one of the major performance degradation factors of parallel applications. Therefore, distributing, cleverly, and as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Anthony Boulmier , Franck Raynaud , Nabil Abdennadher , Bastien Chopard

We consider the allocation of indivisible objects among agents with different valuations, which can be positive or negative. An egalitarian allocation is an allocation that maximizes the smallest value given to an agent; finding such an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Israel Jacobovich , Erel Segal-Halevi

An optimal solution to the problem of scheduling real-time tasks on a set of identical processors is derived. The described approach is based on solving an equivalent uniprocessor real-time scheduling problem. Although there are other…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Paul Regnier , George Lima , Ernesto Massa

quest for processing speed potential. In fact, we always get a fraction of the technically available computing power (so-called {\em theoretical peak}), and the gap is likely to go hand-to-hand with the hardware complexity of the target…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Claude Tadonki

The efficient allocation of human resources is a critical concern in software development and other industries. This paper introduces a rigorous mathematical methodology for task assignment, employing Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Lokendra Kumar , Neelesh S. Upadhye , Kannan Piedy

We consider the facility location problem in the one-dimensional setting where each facility can serve a limited number of agents from the algorithmic and mechanism design perspectives. From the algorithmic perspective, we prove that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Haris Aziz , Hau Chan , Barton E. Lee , Bo Li , Toby Walsh

We consider the classical scheduling problem on parallel identical machines to minimize the makespan, and achieve the following results under the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH) 1. The scheduling problem on a constant number $m$ of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Lin Chen , Klaus Jansen , Guochuan Zhang

Distributed optimization for resource allocation problems is investigated and a sub-optimal continuous-time algorithm is proposed. Our algorithm has lower order dynamics than others to reduce burdens of computation and communication, and is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Shu Liang , Xianlin Zeng , Guanpu Chen , Yiguang Hong

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