English
Related papers

Related papers: Lazy Local Search Meets Machine Scheduling

200 papers

The Makespan Scheduling problem is an extensively studied NP-hard problem, and its simplest version looks for an allocation approach for a set of jobs with deterministic processing times to two identical machines such that the makespan is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Feng Shi , Daoyu Huang , Xiankun Yan , Frank Neumann

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

As the gap between compute and I/O performance tends to grow, modern High-Performance Computing (HPC) architectures include a new resource type: an intermediate persistent fast memory layer, called burst buffers. This is just one of many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Adrian Naruszko , Bartłomiej Przybylski , Krzysztof Rzadca

Machine scheduling problems involving conflict jobs can be seen as a constrained version of the classical scheduling problem, in which some jobs are conflict in the sense that they cannot be proceeded simultaneously on different machines.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Minh Hoàng Hà , Dinh Quy Ta , Trung Thanh Nguyen

In this paper we analyze the worst-case performance of a greedy algorithm called Largest-Z-ratio-First for the problem of scheduling unreliable jobs on m parallel machines. Each job is characterized by a success probability and a reward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Alessandro Agnetis , Thomas Lidbetter

In this paper we consider the problem of scheduling on parallel machines with a presence of incompatibilities between jobs. The incompatibility relation can be modeled as a complete multipartite graph in which each edge denotes a pair of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Tytus Pikies , Krzysztof Turowski , Marek Kubale

We study the early work scheduling problem on identical parallel machines in order to maximize the total early work, i.e., the parts of non-preemptive jobs executed before a common due date. By preprocessing and constructing an auxiliary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Weidong Li

This paper establishes performance guarantees for online algorithms that schedule stochastic, nonpreemptive jobs on unrelated machines to minimize the expected total weighted completion time. Prior work on unrelated machine scheduling with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Varun Gupta , Benjamin Moseley , Marc Uetz , Qiaomin Xie

We study the classical scheduling problem on parallel machines %with precedence constraints where the precedence graph has the bounded depth $h$. Our goal is to minimize the maximum completion time. We focus on developing approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

This work introduces a natural variant of the online machine scheduling problem on unrelated machines, which we refer to as the favorite machine model. In this model, each job has a minimum processing time on a certain set of machines,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Cong Chen , Paolo Penna , Yinfeng Xu

We consider the problem of scheduling jobs on unrelated machines so as to minimize the sum of weighted completion times. Our main result is a $(3/2-c)$-approximation algorithm for some fixed $c>0$, improving upon the long-standing bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Nikhil Bansal , Aravind Srinivasan , Ola Svensson

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

This paper considers the problem of scheduling jobs on single and parallel machines where all the jobs possess different processing times but a common due date. There is a penalty involved with each job if it is processed earlier or later…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Abhishek Awasthi , Jörg Lässig , Oliver Kramer

The job shop scheduling problem (JSSP) remains a significant hurdle in optimizing production processes. This challenge involves efficiently allocating jobs to a limited number of machines while minimizing factors like total processing time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Henrik Abgaryan , Ararat Harutyunyan , Tristan Cazenave

This paper studies the application of the simulated annealing metaheuristic on the identical parallel machine scheduling problem, a variant of the broader optimal job scheduling problem. In the identical parallel machine scheduling problem,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Jiaxing Li , David Perkins

We consider the scheduling problem on $n$ strategic unrelated machines when no payments are allowed, under the objective of minimizing the makespan. We adopt the model introduced in [Koutsoupias, Theory Comput. Syst. (2014)] where a machine…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Yiannis Giannakopoulos , Elias Koutsoupias , Maria Kyropoulou

We consider the problem of scheduling $n$ jobs on $m$ uniform machines while minimizing the makespan ($Q||C_{\max}$) and maximizing the minimum completion time ($Q||C_{\min}$) in an online setting with migration of jobs. In this online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Hauke Brinkop , David Fischer , Klaus Jansen

Speed-robust scheduling is the following two-stage problem of scheduling $n$ jobs on $m$ uniformly related machines. In the first stage, the algorithm receives the value of $m$ and the processing times of $n$ jobs; it has to partition the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Josef Minařík , Jiří Sgall

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

We study a scheduling problem in which jobs may be split into parts, where the parts of a split job may be processed simultaneously on more than one machine. Each part of a job requires a setup time, however, on the machine where the job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Frans Schalekamp , Rene Sitters , Suzanne van der Ster , Leen Stougie , Victor Verdugo , Anke van Zuylen