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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 describe in this paper a new method for building an efficient algorithm for scheduling jobs in a cluster. Jobs are considered as parallel tasks (PT) which can be scheduled on any number of processors. The main feature is to consider two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Pierre-Francois Dutot , Lionel Eyraud , Grégory Mounié , Denis Trystram

We investigate online scheduling with commitment for parallel identical machines. Our objective is to maximize the total processing time of accepted jobs. As soon as a job has been submitted, the commitment constraint forces us to decide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Chris Schwiegelshohn , Uwe Schwiegelshohn

In non-clairvoyant scheduling, the task is to find an online strategy for scheduling jobs with a priori unknown processing requirements with the objective to minimize the total (weighted) completion time. We revisit this well-studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Alexander Lindermayr , Nicole Megow

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 consider non-clairvoyant scheduling with online precedence constraints, where an algorithm is oblivious to any job dependencies and learns about a job only if all of its predecessors have been completed. Given strong impossibility…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Alexandra Lassota , Alexander Lindermayr , Nicole Megow , Jens Schlöter

Recently, the problem of multitasking scheduling has attracted a lot of attention in the service industries where workers frequently perform multiple tasks by switching from one task to another. Hall, Leung and Li (Discrete Applied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

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

We consider the online problem of scheduling jobs on identical machines, where jobs have precedence constraints. We are interested in the demanding setting where the jobs sizes are not known up-front, but are revealed only upon completion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Naveen Garg , Anupam Gupta , Amit Kumar , Sahil Singla

Scheduling questions arise naturally in many different areas among which operating system design, compiling,... In real life systems, the characteristics of the jobs (such as release time and processing time) are usually unknown and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Julien Robert , Nicolas Schabanel

Most practical scheduling applications involve some uncertainty about the arriving times and lengths of the jobs. Stochastic online scheduling is a well-established model capturing this. Here the arrivals occur online, while the processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Sven Jäger

The evolution in the design of modern parallel platforms leads to revisit the scheduling jobs on distributed heterogeneous resources. The goal of this survey is to present the main existing algorithms, to classify them based on their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Olivier Beaumont , Louis-claude Canon , Lionel Eyraud-Dubois , Giorgio Lucarelli , Loris Marchal , Clément Mommessin , Bertrand Simon , Denis Trystram

We consider an online scheduling problem, motivated by the issues present at the joints of networks using ATM and TCP/IP. Namely, IP packets have to broken down to small ATM cells and sent out before their deadlines, but cells corresponding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-04-14 Christoph Durr , Lukasz Jez , Nguyen Kim Thang

In this study, we investigate a scheduling problem on identical machines in which jobs require initial setup before execution. We assume that an algorithm can dynamically form a batch (i.e., a collection of jobs to be processed together)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yasushi Kawase , Kazuhisa Makino , Vinh Long Phan , Hanna Sumita

We consider a natural scheduling problem which arises in many distributed computing frameworks. Jobs with diverse resource requirements (e.g. memory requirements) arrive over time and must be served by a cluster of servers, each with a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Konstantinos Psychas , Javad Ghaderi

This paper studies Makespan Minimization in the secretary model. Formally, jobs, specified by their processing times, are presented in a uniformly random order. An online algorithm has to assign each job permanently and irrevocably to one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Susanne Albers , Maximilian Janke

We analyze the problem of job scheduling with preempting on weighted jobs that can have either linear or exponential penalties. We review relevant literature on the problem and create and describe a few online algorithms that perform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Frederick Tang , Fareed Sheriff , Andrew Wang

This paper considers the online machine minimization problem, a basic real time scheduling problem. The setting for this problem consists of n jobs that arrive over time, where each job has a deadline by which it must be completed. The goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Sungjin Im , Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Clifford Stein

Modern computing workloads are often composed of parallelizable jobs. A parallelizable job can be completed more quickly when run on additional servers. However, each job can only use a limited number of servers, known as its…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Benjamin Berg , Benjamin Moseley , Weina Wang , Mor Harchol-Balter

We study the online scheduling problem where the machines need to be calibrated before processing any jobs. To calibrate a machine, it will take $\lambda$ time steps as the activation time, and then the machine will remain calibrated status…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Zuzhi Chen , Jialin Zhang