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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 this paper we study a proportionate flow shop of batching machines with release dates and a fixed number $m \geq 2$ of machines. The scheduling problem has so far barely received any attention in the literature, but recently its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Christoph Hertrich , Christian Weiß , Heiner Ackermann , Sandy Heydrich , Sven O. Krumke

We investigate multi-organizational scheduling problems, building upon the framework introduced by Pascual et al.[2009]. In this setting, multiple organizations each own a set of identical machines and sequential jobs with distinct…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jiehua Chen , Martin Durand , Christian Hatschka

The aim of power management policies is to reduce the amount of energy consumed by computer systems while maintaining satisfactory level of performance. One common method for saving energy is to simply suspend the system during the idle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-06 Philippe Baptiste , Marek Chrobak , Christoph Durr

We consider a 1-machine scheduling problem where the temperature of a job rises during processing, and cools down when not being processed according to given linear heating and cooling rates. No job's temperature is allowed to rise above a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Roel Lambers , Rudi Pendavingh , Frits Spieksma , Céline M. F. Swennenhuis

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

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

A moldable job is a job that can be executed on an arbitrary number of processors, and whose processing time depends on the number of processors allotted to it. A moldable job is monotone if its work doesn't decrease for an increasing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Klaus Jansen , Felix Land

We study the classic problem of minimizing the expected total completion time of jobs on $m$ identical machines in the setting where the sizes of the jobs are stochastic. Specifically, the size of each job is a random variable whose…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Anupam Gupta , Benjamin Moseley , Rudy Zhou

The NP-hard MATERIAL CONSUMPTION SCHEDULING Problem and closely related problems have been thoroughly studied since the 1980's. Roughly speaking, the problem deals with minimizing the makespan when scheduling jobs that consume non-renewable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Matthias Bentert , Robert Bredereck , Péter Györgyi , Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Rolf Niedermeier

We propose new abstract and unified perspectives on a range of scheduling and graph coloring problems with general min-sum objectives. Specifically, we consider various problems where the objective function is the weighted sum of completion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Alexander Lindermayr , Zhenwei Liu , Nicole Megow

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

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of allocating human operator assistance in a system with multiple autonomous robots. Each robot is required to complete independent missions, each defined as a sequence of tasks. While executing a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Yifan Cai , Abhinav Dahiya , Nils Wilde , Stephen L. Smith

Motivated by modern-day applications such as Attended Home Delivery and Preference-based Group Scheduling, where decision makers wish to steer a large number of customers toward choosing the exact same alternative, we introduce a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Omar El Housni , Marouane Ibn Brahim , Danny Segev

Task allocation problems have traditionally focused on cost optimization. However, more and more attention is being given to cases in which cost should not always be the sole or major consideration. In this paper we study a fair task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Qing Chuan Ye , Yingqian Zhang , Rommert Dekker

We present an $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation algorithm with quasi-polynomial running time for computing the maximum weight independent set of polygons out of a given set of polygons in the plane (specifically, the running time is $n^{O(…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Anna Adamaszek , Sariel Har-Peled , Andreas Wiese

We introduce a natural but seemingly yet unstudied generalization of the problem of scheduling jobs on a single machine so as to minimize the number of tardy jobs. Our generalization lies in simultaneously considering several instances of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Klaus Heeger , Danny Hermelin , George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Dvir Shabtay

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 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