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Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are directed graphs in which there is no path from a vertex to itself. DAGs are an omnipresent data structure in computer science and the problem of counting the DAGs of given number of vertices and to sample…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Martin Pépin , Alfredo Viola

We consider global fixed-priority (G-FP) scheduling of parallel tasks, in which each task is represented as a directed acyclic graph (DAG). We summarize and highlight limitations of the state-of-the-art analyses for G-FP and propose a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Son Dinh , Christopher Gill , Kunal Agrawal

This paper considers the scheduling of parallel real-time tasks with arbitrary-deadlines. Each job of a parallel task is described as a directed acyclic graph (DAG). In contrast to prior work in this area, where decomposition-based…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Niklas Ueter , Georg von der Brüggen , Jian-Jia Chen , Jing Li , Kunal Agrawal

Cloud providers must assign heterogeneous compute resources to workflow DAGs while balancing competing objectives such as completion time, cost, and energy consumption. In this work, we study a single-workflow, queue-free scheduling setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Anas Hattay , Fred Ngole Mboula , Eric Gascard , Zakaria Yahoun

Carbon-aware schedulers aim to reduce the operational carbon footprint of data centers by running flexible workloads during periods of low carbon intensity. Most schedulers treat workloads as single monolithic tasks, ignoring that many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Roozbeh Bostandoost , Adam Lechowicz , Walid A. Hanafy , Prashant Shenoy , Mohammad Hajiesmaili

Learning a faithful directed acyclic graph (DAG) from samples of a joint distribution is a challenging combinatorial problem, owing to the intractable search space superexponential in the number of graph nodes. A recent breakthrough…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Yue Yu , Jie Chen , Tian Gao , Mo Yu

Serverless computing has gained popularity in edge computing due to its flexible features, including the pay-per-use pricing model, auto-scaling capabilities, and multi-tenancy support. Complex Serverless-based applications typically rely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Ke Luo , Tao Ouyang , Zhi Zhou , Xu Chen

Static (offline) techniques for mapping applications given by task graphs to MPSoC systems often deliver overly pessimistic and thus suboptimal results w.r.t. exploiting time slack in order to minimize the energy consumption. This holds…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Bertrand Simon , Joachim Falk , Nicole Megow , Jürgen Teich

The paper formalizes a version of parallel online directed acyclic graph (DAG) exploration, general enough to be readily mapped to many computational scenarios. In both the offline and online versions, vertices are weighted with the work…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Rahul Prabhu , Amit Verma , Meera Sitharam

Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) are commonly used in Databases and Big Data computational engines like Apache Spark for representing the execution plan of queries. We refer to such graphs as Query Directed Acyclic Graphs (QDAGs). This paper…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Sweta Singh , Vaibhav Kulkarni , Mario Briggs , Deepak Mahajan , Eitan Farchi

Current Physical AI (PAI) relies heavily on closed-loop visual-servoing pipelines, whose perception and planning stages may become computationally intensive onboard due to complex models embedded on robots. In practice, offloading the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Thien Tran , Jonathan Kua , Thuong Hoang , Minh Tran , Yuemin Ding , Jiong Jin

The Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) task model for real-time scheduling finds its primary practical target in Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2). However, ROS 2's publish/subscribe API leaves DAG precedence constraints unenforced: a callback may…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Takahiro Ishikawa-Aso , Atsushi Yano , Yutaro Kobayashi , Takumi Jin , Yuuki Takano , Shinpei Kato

We study the problem of scheduling an arbitrary computational DAG on a fixed number of processors while minimizing the makespan. While previous works have mostly studied this problem in fairly restricted models, we define and analyze DAG…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Pál András Papp , Georg Anegg , A. N. Yzelman

Recent years have witnessed increasing interest in machine learning inferences on serverless computing for its auto-scaling and cost effective properties. Existing serverless computing, however, lacks effective job scheduling methods to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Xinning Hui , Yuanchao Xu , Zhishan Guo , Xipeng Shen

Optimization of directed acyclic graph (DAG) structures has many applications, such as neural architecture search (NAS) and probabilistic graphical model learning. Encoding DAGs into real vectors is a dominant component in most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Zehao Dong , Muhan Zhang , Fuhai Li , Yixin Chen

Serverless computing along with Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is forming a new computing paradigm that is anticipated to found the next generation of cloud systems. The popularity of this paradigm is due to offering a highly transparent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Chavit Denninnart , Thanawat Chanikaphon , Mohsen Amini Salehi

Efficient scheduling of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) in heterogeneous environments is challenging due to resource capacities and dependencies. In practice, the need for adaptability across environments with varying resource pools and task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ruisong Zhou , Haijun Zou , Li Zhou , Chumin Sun , Zaiwen Wen

In this paper, we address the problem of supporting stateful workflows following a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) model in edge networks. In particular we focus on the problem of data transfer, which can be a performance bottleneck due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

The event-driven and elastic nature of serverless runtimes makes them a very efficient and cost-effective alternative for scaling up computations. So far, they have mostly been used for stateless, data parallel and ephemeral computations.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Arda Aytekin , Mikael Johansson

Modern embedded systems have made the transition from single-core to multi-core architectures, providing performance improvement via parallelism rather than higher clock frequencies. DAGs are considered among the most generic task models in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-05 José Marinho , Stefan M. Petters