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We study single-machine scheduling of jobs, each belonging to a job type that determines its duration distribution. We start by analyzing the scenario where the type characteristics are known and then move to two learning scenarios where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Nadav Merlis , Hugo Richard , Flore Sentenac , Corentin Odic , Mathieu Molina , Vianney Perchet

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 moldable job scheduling problem one has to assign a set of $n$ jobs to $m$ machines, in order to minimize the time it takes to process all jobs. Each job is moldable, so it can be assigned not only to one but any number of the equal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Kilian Grage , Klaus Jansen , Felix Ohnesorge

In the problem called single resource constraint scheduling, we are given $m$ identical machines and a set of jobs, each needing one machine to be processed as well as a share of a limited renewable resource $R$. A schedule of these jobs is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Klaus Jansen , Malin Rau

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

In this paper, we consider an NP-hard problem of scheduling a set of jobs of equal processing time on two machines, given a partial precedence order on the set of jobs, with an objective to minimize the makespan. An approximation algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Anna Romanova

We study three two-stage optimization problems with a similar structure and different objectives. In the first stage of each problem, the goal is to assign input jobs of positive sizes to unsplittable bags. After this assignment is decided,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Leah Epstein , Asaf Levin

We consider the problem of scheduling $n$ precedence-constrained jobs on $m$ uniformly-related machines in the presence of an arbitrary, fixed communication delay $\rho$. We consider a model that allows job duplication, i.e. processing of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Biswaroop Maiti , Rajmohan Rajaraman , David Stalfa , Zoya Svitkina , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

In a classical scheduling problem, we are given a set of $n$ jobs of unit length along with precedence constraints, and the goal is to find a schedule of these jobs on $m$ identical machines that minimizes the makespan. Using the standard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Jesper Nederlof , Céline M. F. Swennenhuis , Karol Węgrzycki

Various new scheduling problems have been arising from practical production processes and spawning new research areas in the scheduling field. We study the parallel multi-stage open shops problem, which generalizes the classic open shop…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jianming Dong , Ruyan Jin , Guohui Lin , Bing Su , Weitian Tong , Yao Xu

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

Makespan scheduling on identical machines is one of the most basic and fundamental packing problems studied in the discrete optimization literature. It asks for an assignment of $n$ jobs to a set of $m$ identical machines that minimizes the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Klaus Jansen , Kim-Manuel Klein , José Verschae

This paper studies a scheduling problem in a parallel machine setting, where each machine must adhere to a predetermined fixed order for processing the jobs. Given $n$ jobs, each with processing times and deadlines, we aim to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Andre Berger , Arman Rouhani , Marc Schröder

Motivated by deep neural network applications, we study the problem of scheduling splittable jobs (e.g., neural network inference tasks) on configurable machines (e.g., multi-instance GPUs). We are given $n$ jobs and a set $C$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Matthew Casey , Rajmohan Rajaraman , David Stalfa

In a classical scheduling problem, we are given a set of $n$ jobs of unit length along with precedence constraints and the goal is to find a schedule of these jobs on $m$ identical machines that minimizes the makespan. This problem is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Jesper Nederlof , Céline M. F. Swennenhuis , Karol Węgrzycki

In the restricted assignment problem, the input consists of a set of machines and a set of jobs each with a processing time and a subset of eligible machines. The goal is to find an assignment of the jobs to the machines minimizing the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Marten Maack , Klaus Jansen

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 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

We are concerned with the problem of scheduling $n$ jobs onto $m$ identical machines. Each machine has to be in operation for a prescribed time, and the objective is to minimize the total machine working time. Precisely, let $c_i$ be the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yi-Ting Hsieh , Mong-Jen Kao , Jhong-Yun Liu , Hung-Lung Wang

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