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We consider scheduling to minimize mean response time of the M/G/k queue with unknown job sizes. In the single-server case, the optimal policy is the Gittins policy, but it is not known whether Gittins or any other policy is optimal in the…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Ziv Scully , Isaac Grosof , Mor Harchol-Balter

\textit{Weighted shortest processing time first} (WSPT) is one of the best known algorithms for total weighted completion time scheduling problems. For each job $J_j$, it first combines the two independent job parameters weight $w_j$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Samin Jamalabadi , Uwe Schwiegelshohn

We study the conditional sojourn time distributions of processor sharing (PS), foreground background processor sharing (FBPS) and shortest remaining processing time first (SRPT) scheduling disciplines on an event where the job size of a…

Performance · Computer Science 2008-05-15 Predrag R. Jelenkovic , Xiaozhu Kang , Jian Tan

Contrary to the conclusions of a recent body of work where approximate shortest remaining processing time first (SRPT) flow scheduling is advocated for datacenter networks, this paper aims to demonstrate that per-flow fairness remains a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-04 James Roberts , Dario Rossi

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 addresses the problem of computing a scheduling policy that minimizes the total expected completion time of a set of $N$ jobs with stochastic processing times on $m$ parallel identical machines. When all processing times follow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Antonios Antoniadis , Ruben Hoeksma , Kevin Schewior , Marc Uetz

The assessment of a job's Quality of Service (QoS) often revolves around its flow time, also referred to as response time. This study delves into two fundamental objectives for scheduling jobs: the average flow time and the maximum flow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Tung-Wei Kuo

This paper addresses the scheduling problem in mobile social networks. We begin by proving that the approximation ratio analysis presented in the paper by Zhang \textit{et al.} (IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2025) is incorrect, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Chi-Yeh Chen

Due to its optimality on a single machine for the problem of minimizing average flow time, Shortest-Remaining-Processing-Time (\srpt) appears to be the most natural algorithm to consider for the problem of minimizing average flow time on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-10 Kyle Fox , Benjamin Moseley

A classical problem in appointment scheduling, with applications in health care, concerns the determination of the patients' arrival times that minimize a cost function that is a weighted sum of mean waiting times and mean idle times. One…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-08 Madelon A. de Kemp , Michel Mandjes , Neil Olver

We investigate the performance of two size-based routing policies: the Size Interval Task Assignment (SITA) and Task Assignment based on Guessing Size (TAGS). We consider a system with two servers and Bounded Pareto distributed job sizes…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-12-08 E. Bachmat , J. Doncel

Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT) is a well known preemptive scheduling algorithm for uniprocessor and multiprocessor systems. SRPT finds applications in the emerging areas such as scheduling of client's requests that are submitted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Sheetal Swain , Rakesh Mohanty , Debasis Dwibedy

We study policies aiming to minimize the weighted sum of completion times of jobs in the context of coordination mechanisms for selfish scheduling problems. Our goal is to design local policies that achieve a good price of anarchy in the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-23 Richard Cole , José R. Correa , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Vahab Mirrokni , Neil Olver

Minimizing the sum of weighted completion times on $m$ identical parallel machines is one of the most important and classical scheduling problems. For the stochastic variant where processing times of jobs are random variables, M\"ohring,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Sven Jäger , Martin Skutella

Parallel machine scheduling has been extensively studied in the past decades, with applications ranging from production planning to job processing in large computing clusters. In this work we study some of these fundamental optimization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Yael Mordechai

We study the classical scheduling problem of minimizing the makespan of a set of unit size jobs with precedence constraints on parallel identical machines. Research on the problem dates back to the landmark paper by Graham from 1966 who…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Syamantak Das , Andreas Wiese

We consider the problem of scheduling $n$ jobs on $m$ uniform machines while minimizing the makespan ($Q||C_{\max}$) and maximizing the minimum completion time ($Q||C_{\min}$) in an online setting with migration of jobs. In this online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Hauke Brinkop , David Fischer , Klaus Jansen

Consider the many shared resource scheduling problem where jobs have to be scheduled on identical parallel machines with the goal of minimizing the makespan. However, each job needs exactly one additional shared resource in order to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Max A. Deppert , Klaus Jansen , Marten Maack , Simon Pukrop , Malin Rau

Efficient scheduling is crucial for interactive Large Language Model (LLM) applications, where low request completion time directly impacts user engagement. Size-based scheduling algorithms like Shortest Remaining Process Time (SRPT) aim to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Rana Shahout , Eran Malach , Chunwei Liu , Weifan Jiang , Minlan Yu , Michael Mitzenmacher

We consider the stochastic scheduling problem of minimizing the expected makespan on $m$ parallel identical machines. While the (adaptive) list scheduling policy achieves an approximation ratio of $2$, any (non-adaptive) fixed assignment…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Guillaume Sagnol , Daniel Schmidt genannt Waldschmidt