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We study online scheduling to minimize total completion time with explorable uncertainty on single and multiple machines. Each job comes with an upper limit of its processing time, which could be potentially reduced by testing the job,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bob Krekelberg , Alison Hsiang-Hsuan Liu , Fu-Hong Liu , Prudence W. H. Wong , Xiao-Ou Zhang

We study ordinal makespan scheduling on small numbers of identical machines, with respect to two parallel solutions. In ordinal scheduling, it is known that jobs are sorted by non-increasing sizes, but the specific sizes are not known in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Leah Epstein

We explore the machine-minimizing job scheduling problem, which has a rich history in the line of research, under an online setting. We consider systems with arbitrary job arrival times, arbitrary job deadlines, and unit job execution time.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Mong-Jen Kao , Jian-Jia Chen , Ignaz Rutter , Dorothea Wagner

This paper investigates the non-clairvoyant parallel machine scheduling problem with prediction, with the objective of minimizing the makespan. Improved lower bounds for the problem and competitive ratios of online algorithms with respect…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Tianqi Chen , Zhiyi Tan

We consider online preemptive scheduling of jobs arriving one by one, to be assigned to two identical machines, with the goal of makespan minimization. We study the effect of selecting the best solution out of two independent solutions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Leah Epstein

We are given a set of jobs, each one specified by its release date, its deadline and its processing volume (work), and a single (or a set of) speed-scalable processor(s). We adopt the standard model in speed-scaling in which if a processor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Evripidis Bampis , Giorgio Lucarelli , Ioannis Nemparis

Algorithms with predictions is a recent framework that has been used to overcome pessimistic worst-case bounds in incomplete information settings. In the context of scheduling, very recent work has leveraged machine-learned predictions to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Eric Balkanski , Tingting Ou , Clifford Stein , Hao-Ting Wei

Design and analysis of constant competitive deterministic semi-online algorithms for the multi-processor scheduling problem with small number of identical machines have gained significant research interest in the last two decades. In the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Debasis Dwibedy , Rakesh Mohanty

We consider the online busy time scheduling problem motivated by energy and cost minimization in cloud computing systems. The input is a set of jobs $J=\{1,\dots,n\}$ where each job $j\in J$ has a release time $r_j$, deadline $d_j$, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Susanne Albers , G. Wessel van der Heijden

Malleable scheduling is a model that captures the possibility of parallelization to expedite the completion of time-critical tasks. A malleable job can be allocated and processed simultaneously on multiple machines, occupying the same time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Dimitris Fotakis , Jannik Matuschke , Orestis Papadigenopoulos

We investigate the scheduling of $n$ jobs divided into $c$ classes on $m$ identical parallel machines. For every class there is a setup time which is required whenever a machine switches from the processing of one class to another class.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Max A. Deppert , Klaus Jansen

This paper considers scheduling on identical machines. The scheduling objective considered in this paper generalizes most scheduling minimization problems. In the problem, there are $n$ jobs and each job $j$ is associated with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Benjamin Moseley

This paper introduces the \emph{serial-parallel decision problem}. Consider an online scheduler that receives a series of tasks, where each task has both a parallel and a serial implementation. The parallel implementation has the advantage…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-21 William Kuszmaul , Alek Westover

In this paper we address the problem of designing an interruptible system in a setting in which $n$ problem instances, all equally important, must be solved concurrently. The system involves scheduling executions of contract algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Spyros Angelopoulos , Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz

We consider a fundamental online scheduling problem in which jobs with processing times and deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates. The task is to determine a feasible preemptive schedule on a single or multiple possibly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Franziska Eberle , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior

In this paper we study a single machine scheduling problem with the objective of minimizing the sum of completion times. Each of the given jobs is either short or long. However the processing times are initially hidden to the algorithm, but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Fanny Dufossé , Christoph Dürr , Noël Nadal , Denis Trystram , Óscar C. Vásquez

We study the problem of scheduling jobs on fault-prone machines communicating via a shared channel, also known as multiple-access channel. We have $n$ arbitrary length jobs to be scheduled on $m$ identical machines, $f$ of which are prone…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Marek Klonowski , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Jarosław Mirek , Prudence W. H. Wong

We consider the classical problem of scheduling $n$ jobs with release dates on both single and identical parallel machines. We measure the quality of service provided to each job by its stretch, which is defined as the ratio of its response…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-27 Abhinav Srivastav , Denis Trystram

Scheduling with testing falls under the umbrella of the research on optimization with explorable uncertainty. In this model, each job has an upper limit on its processing time that can be decreased to a lower limit (possibly unknown) by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Christoph Damerius , Peter Kling , Minming Li , Chenyang Xu , Ruilong Zhang

In online makespan minimization a sequence of jobs $\sigma = J_1,..., J_n$ has to be scheduled on $m$ identical parallel machines so as to minimize the maximum completion time of any job. We investigate the problem with an essentially new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Susanne Albers , Matthias Hellwig