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In this paper, we proposed an effective approach for scheduling of multiprocessor unit time tasks with chain precedence on to large multiprocessor system. The proposed longest chain maximum processor scheduling algorithm is proved to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-14 T. K. Agrawal , R. Sharma , M. Ghose , A. Sahu

Mixed-Criticality (MC) systems consolidate multiple functionalities with different criticalities onto a single hardware platform. Such systems improve the overall resource utilization while guaranteeing resources to critical tasks. In this…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Saravanan Ramanathan , Arvind Easwaran

We consider the makespan minimization coupled-tasks problem in presence of compatibility constraints with a specified topology. In particular, we focus on stretched coupled-tasks, i.e. coupled-tasks having the same sub-tasks execution time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Benoit Darties , Rodolphe Giroudeau , Jean-Claude König , Gilles Simonin

This report considers a sporadic real-time task system with $n$ sporadic tasks on a uniprocessor platform, in which the lowest-priority task is a segmented self-suspension task and the other higher-priority tasks are ordinary sporadic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Jian-Jia Chen

In this study, we investigate a robust single-machine scheduling problem under processing time uncertainty. The uncertainty is modeled using the budgeted approach, where each job has a nominal and deviation processing time, and the number…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Noam Goldberg , Dvir Shabtay

This paper studies a combinatorial optimization problem which is obtained by combining the flow shop scheduling problem and the shortest path problem. The objective of the obtained problem is to select a subset of jobs that constitutes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-03 Kameng Nip , Zhenbo Wang , Fabrice Talla Nobibon , Roel Leus

The task of scheduling jobs to machines while minimizing the total makespan, the sum of weighted completion times, or a norm of the load vector, are among the oldest and most fundamental tasks in combinatorial optimization. Since all of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Martin Koutecký , Johannes Zink

Scheduling problems are fundamental in combinatorial optimization. Much work has been done on approximation algorithms for NP-hard cases, but relatively little is known about exact solutions when some part of the input is a fixed parameter.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Dušan Knop , Martin Koutecký

We consider the uniform parallel machines scheduling problem in the context of optimistic bilevel optimization, where two speed options are considered. In this scenario, the leader aims to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Quentin Schau , Olivier Ploton , Vincent T'kindt , Han Hoogeveen , Federico Della Croce , Jippe Hoogeveen

We study the problem of scheduling jobs on fault-prone machines communicating via a shared channel, also known as multiple-access channel. We have $n$ arbitrary length jobs to be scheduled on $m$ identical machines, $f$ of which are prone…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Marek Klonowski , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Jarosław Mirek , Prudence W. H. Wong

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

We consider the classical minimum makespan scheduling problem, where the processing time of job $j$ on machine $i$ is $p_{ij}$, and the matrix $P=(p_{ij})_{m\times n}$ is of a low rank. It is proved in (Bhaskara et al., SODA 2013) that rank…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-06-18 Lin Chen , Deshi Ye , Guochuan Zhang

We consider the $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problem $\mathrm{P} \mathbf{\vert} \mathrm{pmtn, setup=s_i} \mathbf{\vert} \mathrm{C_{\max}}$, the problem of scheduling $n$ jobs, which are divided into $c$ classes, on $m$ identical parallel machines…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Max A. Deppert , David Fischer , Klaus Jansen

One of the most important open problems in machine scheduling is the problem of scheduling a set of jobs on unrelated machines to minimize the makespan. The best known approximation algorithm for this problem guarantees an approximation…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-17 José Verschae , Andreas Wiese

We consider the single machine scheduling problem with job-dependent machine deterioration. In the problem, we are given a single machine with an initial non-negative maintenance level, and a set of jobs each with a non-preemptive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Wenchang Luo , Yao Xu , Weitian Tong , Guohui Lin

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 consider here the MultiBot problem for the scheduling and the resource parametrization of jobs related to the production or the transportation of different products inside a given time horizon. Those jobs must meet known in advance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Pierre Bergé , Mari Chaikovskaia , Jean-Philippe Gayon , Alain Quilliot

We consider offline scheduling algorithms that incorporate speed scaling to address the bicriteria problem of minimizing energy consumption and a scheduling metric. For makespan, we give linear-time algorithms to compute all non-dominated…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David P. Bunde

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

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