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This paper considers the scheduling of stochastic jobs on parallel identical machines to minimize the expected total weighted completion time. While this is a classical problem with a significant body of research on approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Marc Uetz , Rudy Zhou

This paper investigates concurrency-constrained scheduling problems, where the objective is to construct a schedule for a set of jobs subject to concurrency restrictions. Formally, we are given a conflict graph $G$ defined over a set of $n$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Hans L. Bodlaender , Danny Hermelin , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

This article is devoted to propose some lower and upper bounds for the coupled-tasks scheduling problem in presence of compatibility constraints according to classical complexity hypothesis ($\mathcal{P} \neq \mathcal{NP}$,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Rodolphe Giroudeau , Jean-Claude König , Benoit Darties , Gilles Simonin

We study the scheduling of jobs on a single parallel-batching machine with non-identical job sizes and incompatible job families. Jobs from the same family have the same processing time and can be loaded into a batch, as long as the batch…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Fan Yang , Morteza Davari , Wenchao Wei , Ben Hermans , Roel Leus

This paper presents a novel idea for the general case of the Common Due-Date (CDD) scheduling problem. The problem is about scheduling a certain number of jobs on a single or parallel machines where all the jobs possess different processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-07 Abhishek Awasthi , Jörg Lässig , Oliver Kramer

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 the classical problem of scheduling on unrelated parallel machines, a set of jobs has to be assigned to a set of machines. The jobs have a processing time depending on the machine and the goal is to minimize the makespan, that is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Klaus Jansen , Marten Maack

In the paper we consider the problem of scheduling $n$ identical jobs on 3 uniform machines with speeds $s_1, s_2,$ and $s_3$ to minimize the schedule length. We assume that jobs are subjected to some kind of mutual exclusion constraints,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-06-17 H. Furmańczyk , M. Kubale

In this paper we consider the coupled task scheduling problem with exact delay times on a single machine with the objective of minimizing the total completion time of the jobs. We provide constant-factor approximation algorithms for several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-03 David Fischer , Péter Györgyi

We consider a basic problem of preemptive scheduling of $n$ non-simultaneously released jobs on a group of $m$ unrelated parallel machines so as to minimize maximum job completion time, the makespan. In the scheduling literature, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Nodari Vakhania

Consider a scheduling problem in which jobs need to be processed on a single machine. Each job has a weight and is composed of several operations belonging to different families. The machine needs to perform a setup between the processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Alexander Mäcker , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide , Simon Pukrop

In this paper, we consider the problem of scheduling an application on a parallel computational platform. The application is a particular task graph, either a linear chain of tasks, or a set of independent tasks. The platform is made of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-18 Guillaume Aupy , Anne Benoit

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

Temporal graphs have been recently introduced to model changes to a given network that occur throughout a fixed period of time. The Temporal $\Delta$ Clique problem, that generalizes the well known Clique problem to temporal graphs, has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Danny Hermelin , Yuval Itzhaki , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier

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

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

This paper introduces a parallel scheduling problem where a directed acyclic graph modeling $t$ tasks and their dependencies needs to be executed on $n$ unreliable workers. Worker $i$ executes task $j$ correctly with probability $p_{i,j}$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Grzegorz Malewicz

The non-preemptive job scheduling problem with release times and deadlines on a single machine is fundamental to many scheduling problems. We parameterize this problem by the set of job lengths the jobs can have. The case where all job…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Jan Elffers , Mathijs de Weerdt

We study the problem of scheduling jobs on parallel machines minimizing the total completion time, with each job using exactly one resource. First, we derive fundamental properties of the problem and show that the problem is polynomially…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-11-19 T. Janssen , C. Swennenhuis , A. Bitar , T. Bosman , D. Gijswijt , L. van Iersel , S. Dauzére-Pérès , C. Yugma

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