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We consider a new scheduling problem on parallel identical machines in which the number of machines is initially not known, but it follows a given probability distribution. Only after all jobs are assigned to a given number of bags, the…

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We study the problem of optimizing Large Language Model (LLM) inference scheduling to minimize total latency. LLM inference is an online and multi-task service process and also heavily energy consuming by which a pre-trained LLM processes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zixi Chen , Yinyu Ye , Zijie Zhou

This paper introduces the \emph{serial-parallel decision problem}. Consider an online scheduler that receives a series of tasks, where each task has both a parallel and a serial implementation. The parallel implementation has the advantage…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-21 William Kuszmaul , Alek Westover

We investigate an optimal scheduling problem in a discrete-time system of L parallel queues that are served by K identical, randomly connected servers. Each queue may be connected to a subset of the K servers during any given time slot.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Hussein Al-Zubaidy , Ioannis Lambadaris , Yannis Viniotis

In the paper we consider the problem of scheduling $n$ identical jobs on 4 uniform machines with speeds $s_1 \geq s_2 \geq s_3 \geq s_4,$ respectively. Our aim is to find a schedule with a minimum possible length. We assume that jobs are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-08 H. Furmanczyk , M. Kubale

The performance of anytime algorithms can be improved by simultaneously solving several instances of algorithm-problem pairs. These pairs may include different instances of a problem (such as starting from a different initial state),…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-28 L. Finkelstein , S. Markovitch , E. Rivlin

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

We consider a natural generalization of classical scheduling problems in which using a time unit for processing a job causes some time-dependent cost which must be paid in addition to the standard scheduling cost. We study the scheduling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Lin Chen , Nicole Megow , Roman Rischke , Leen Stougie , José Verschae

Scheduling with testing is a recent online problem within the framework of explorable uncertainty motivated by environments where some preliminary action can influence the duration of a task. Jobs have an unknown processing time that can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Susanne Albers , Alexander Eckl

We consider the problem of efficiently scheduling jobs with precedence constraints on a set of identical machines in the presence of a uniform communication delay. Such precedence-constrained jobs can be modeled as a directed acyclic graph,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Quanquan C. Liu , Manish Purohit , Zoya Svitkina , Erik Vee , Joshua R. Wang

Motivated by the need of {\em social distancing} during a pandemic, we consider an approach to schedule the visitors of a facility (e.g., a general store). Our algorithms take input from the citizens and schedule the store's discrete…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Deepesh Kumar Lall , Garima Shakya , Swaprava Nath

Appointment scheduling problems under uncertainty encounter a fundamental trade-off between cost minimization and customer waiting times. Most existing studies address this trade-off using a weighted sum approach, which puts little emphasis…

General Economics · Economics 2026-01-06 Carolin Bauerhenne , Rainer Kolisch , Andreas S. Schulz

We study a fair resource scheduling problem, where a set of interval jobs are to be allocated to heterogeneous machines controlled by agents. Each job is associated with release time, deadline, and processing time such that it can be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Bo Li , Minming Li , Ruilong Zhang

The considered problem is how to optimally allocate a set of jobs to technicians of different skills such that the number of technicians of each skill does not exceed the number of persons with that skill designation. The key motivation is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Nima Safaei , Corey Kiassat

Consider a discrete-time system in which a centralized controller (CC) is tasked with assigning at each time interval (or slot) K resources (or servers) to K out of M>=K nodes. When assigned a server, a node can execute a task. The tasks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Fabio Iannello , Osvaldo Simeone , Umberto Spagnolini

Nowadays, DevOps pipelines of huge projects are getting more and more complex. Each job in the pipeline might need different requirements including specific hardware specifications and dependencies. To achieve minimal makespan, developers…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Burak Tağtekin , Mahiye Uluyağmur Öztürk , Mert Kutay Sezer

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

We study ordinal makespan scheduling on small numbers of identical machines, with respect to two parallel solutions. In ordinal scheduling, it is known that jobs are sorted by non-increasing sizes, but the specific sizes are not known in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Leah Epstein

The active-time scheduling problem considers the problem of scheduling preemptible jobs with windows (release times and deadlines) on a parallel machine that can schedule up to $g$ jobs during each timestep. The goal in the active-time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Nairen Cao , Jeremy T. Fineman , Shi Li , Julián Mestre , Katina Russell , Seeun William Umboh

We present an analysis of large-scale load balancing systems, where the processing time distribution of tasks depends on both the task and server types. Our study focuses on the asymptotic regime, where the number of servers and task types…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Zhisheng Zhao , Debankur Mukherjee