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In this paper, we consider the problem of scheduling an application on a parallel computational platform. The application is a particular task graph, either a linear chain of tasks, or a set of independent tasks. The platform is made of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-18 Guillaume Aupy , Anne Benoit

We study the scheduling problem of makespan minimization while taking machine conflicts into account. Machine conflicts arise in various settings, e.g., shared resources for pre- and post-processing of tasks or spatial restrictions. In this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Moritz Buchem , Linda Kleist , Daniel Schmidt genannt Waldschmidt

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

Consider the problem in which n jobs that are classified into k types are to be scheduled on m identical machines without preemption. A machine requires a proper setup taking s time units before processing jobs of a given type. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Alexander Mäcker , Manuel Malatyali , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide , Sören Riechers

In the classical problem of scheduling on unrelated parallel machines, a set of jobs has to be assigned to a set of machines. The jobs have a processing time depending on the machine and the goal is to minimize the makespan, that is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Klaus Jansen , Marten Maack

In the classical longest palindromic substring (LPS) problem, we are given a string $S$ of length $n$, and the task is to output a longest palindromic substring in $S$. Gilbert, Hajiaghayi, Saleh, and Seddighin [SPAA 2023] showed how to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Solon P. Pissis

We consider the classical makespan minimization scheduling problem where $n$ jobs must be scheduled on $m$ identical machines. Using weighted random sampling, we developed two sublinear time approximation schemes: one for the case where $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

We study approximation algorithms for scheduling problems with the objective of minimizing total weighted completion time, under identical and related machine models with job precedence constraints. We give algorithms that improve upon many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Shi Li

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

The Partitioning Min-Max Weighted Matching (PMMWM) problem is an NP-hard problem that combines the problem of partitioning a group of vertices of a bipartite graph into disjoint subsets with limited size and the classical Min-Max Weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Yuxuan Wang , Jinyao Xie , Jiongzhi Zheng , Kun He

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

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

We study nearly-linear time approximation algorithms for non-preemptive scheduling problems in two settings: the unrelated machine setting, and the identical machine with job precedence constraints setting, under the well-studied objectives…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shi Li

We study the problem of preemptive scheduling n jobs with given release times on m identical parallel machines. The objective is to minimize the average flow time. We show that when all jobs have equal processing times then the problem can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Philippe Baptiste , Peter Brucker , Marek Chrobak , Christoph Durr , Svetlana A. Kravchenko , Francis Sourd

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 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

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

The problem of scheduling non-simultaneously released jobs with due dates on a single machine with the objective to minimize the maximum job lateness is known to be strongly NP-hard. Here we consider an extended model in which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Nodari Vakhania , Frank Werner , Alejandro Reynoso

Latent position models (LPMs) are a large and popular class of models for random graphs. However, fitting Bayesian LPMs is computationally challenging - computing the likelihood even once takes time that is quadratic in the number of…

Computation · Statistics 2026-05-29 Zonghao Li , Aaron Smith