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A speed scaling problem is considered, where time is divided into slots, and jobs with payoff $v$ arrive at the beginning of the slot with associated deadlines $d$. Each job takes one slot to be processed, and multiple jobs can be processed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Goonwanth Reddy , Rahul Vaze

We propose a new approach to competitive analysis in online scheduling by introducing the novel concept of competitive-ratio approximation schemes. Such a scheme algorithmically constructs an online algorithm with a competitive ratio…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-01 Elisabeth Günther , Olaf Maurer , Nicole Megow , Andreas Wiese

We study the problem of preemptively scheduling jobs online over time on a single machine to minimize the total flow time. In the traditional clairvoyant scheduling model, the scheduler learns about the processing time of a job at its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Alexander Lindermayr , Jens Schlöter

In the problem of online load balancing on uniformly related machines with bounded migration, jobs arrive online one after another and have to be immediately placed on one of a given set of machines without knowledge about jobs that may…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Marten Maack

We consider the problem of online preemptive scheduling on a single machine to minimize the total flow time. In clairvoyant scheduling, where job processing times are revealed upon arrival, the Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Alexander Lindermayr , Guido Schäfer , Jens Schlöter , Leen Stougie

We study the online preemptive scheduling of intervals and jobs (with restarts). Each interval or job has an arrival time, a deadline, a length and a weight. The objective is to maximize the total weight of completed intervals or jobs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Stanley P. Y. Fung , Chung Keung Poon , Feifeng Zheng

Online scheduling has been a well studied and challenging research problem over the last five decades since the pioneering work of Graham with immense practical significance in various applications such as interactive parallel processing,…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Debasis Dwibedy , Rakesh Mohanty

We consider the classical online scheduling problem P||C_{max} in which jobs are released over list and provide a nearly optimal online algorithm. More precisely, an online algorithm whose competitive ratio is at most (1+\epsilon) times…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Lin Chen , Deshi Ye , Guochuan Zhang

The interval scheduling problem is one variant of the scheduling problem. In this paper, we propose a novel variant of the interval scheduling problem, whose definition is as follows: given jobs are specified by their {\em release times},…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Koji M. Kobayashi

We consider the classical problem of minimizing the total weighted flow-time for unrelated machines in the online \emph{non-clairvoyant} setting. In this problem, a set of jobs $J$ arrive over time to be scheduled on a set of $M$ machines.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Sungjin Im , Janardhan Kulkarni , Kamesh Munagala , Kirk Pruhs

Motivated primarily by applications in cloud computing, we study a simple, yet powerful, online allocation problem in which jobs of varying durations arrive over continuous time and must be assigned immediately and irrevocably to one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Farbod Ekbatani , Yiding Feng , Ian Kash , Rad Niazadeh

In malleable job scheduling, jobs can be executed simultaneously on multiple machines with the processing time depending on the number of allocated machines. In this setting, jobs are required to be executed non-preemptively and in unison,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Dimitris Fotakis , Jannik Matuschke , Orestis Papadigenopoulos

Makespan minimization on identical parallel machines is a classical scheduling problem. We consider the online scenario where a sequence of $n$ jobs has to be scheduled non-preemptively on $m$ machines so as to minimize the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Susanne Albers , Matthias Hellwig

Motivated by modern parallel computing applications, we consider the problem of scheduling parallel-task jobs with heterogeneous resource requirements in a cluster of machines. Each job consists of a set of tasks that can be processed in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Mehrnoosh Shafiee , Javad Ghaderi

Deep learning has been effectively applied to many discrete optimization problems. However, learning-based scheduling on unrelated parallel machines remains particularly difficult to design. Not only do the numbers of jobs and machines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Diego Hitzges , Guillaume Sagnol

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

Distributed computing systems often need to consider the scheduling problem involving a collection of highly dependent data-processing tasks that must work in concert to achieve mission-critical objectives. This paper considers the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Vaneet Aggarwal , Tian Lan , Suresh Subramaniam , Maotong Xu

We consider the classic problem of scheduling jobs on unrelated machines so as to minimize the weighted sum of completion times. Recently, for a small constant $\varepsilon >0 $, Bansal et al. gave a $(3/2-\varepsilon)$-approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Christos Kalaitzis , Ola Svensson , Jakub Tarnawski

Load balancing plays a critical role in efficiently dispatching jobs in parallel-server systems such as cloud networks and data centers. A fundamental challenge in the design of load balancing algorithms is to achieve an optimal trade-off…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Mark van der Boor , Sem Borst , Johan van Leeuwaarden

In a large-scale computing cluster, the job completions can be substantially delayed due to two sources of variability, namely, variability in the job size and that in the machine service capacity. To tackle this issue, existing works have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Huanle Xu , Gustavo de Veciana , Wing Cheong Lau , Kunxiao Zhou