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In this paper, we explore how a natural generalization of Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT) can be a powerful \emph{meta-algorithm} for online scheduling. The meta-algorithm processes jobs to maximally reduce the objective of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Qingyun Chen , Sungjin Im , Aditya Petety

Time-dependent scheduling with linear deterioration involves determining when to execute jobs whose processing times degrade as their beginning is delayed. Each job i is associated with a release time r_i and a processing time function…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Angelos Gkikas , Dimitrios Letsios , Tomasz Radzik , Kathleen Steinhöfel

There is a long history of approximation schemes for the problem of scheduling jobs on identical machines to minimize the makespan. Such a scheme grants a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation solution for every $\epsilon > 0$, but the running time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Sebastian Berndt , Max A. Deppert , Klaus Jansen , Lars Rohwedder

We consider a system of parallel queues where tasks are assigned (dispatched) to one of the available servers upon arrival. The dispatching decision is based on the full state information, i.e., on the sizes of the new and existing jobs. We…

Performance · Computer Science 2012-03-23 Esa Hyytiä , Samuli Aalto , Aleksi Penttinen

Deep neural networks training jobs and other iterative computations frequently include checkpoints where jobs can be canceled based on the current value of monitored metrics. While most of existing results focus on the performance of all…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Yuan Yao , Marco Paolieri , Leana Golubchik

We consider variants of the restricted assignment problem where a set of jobs has to be assigned to a set of machines, for each job a size and a set of eligible machines is given, and the jobs may only be assigned to eligible machines with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Marten Maack , Simon Pukrop , Anna Rodriguez Rasmussen

We consider non-preemptive scheduling of MapReduce jobs with multiple tasks in the practical scenario where each job requires several map-reduce rounds. We seek to minimize the average weighted completion time and consider scheduling on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Dimitris Fotakis , Ioannis Milis , Orestis Papadigenopoulos , Vasilis Vassalos , Georgios Zois

We study the classic problem of minimizing the expected total completion time of jobs on $m$ identical machines in the setting where the sizes of the jobs are stochastic. Specifically, the size of each job is a random variable whose…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Anupam Gupta , Benjamin Moseley , Rudy Zhou

Despite the fact that size-based schedulers can give excellent results in terms of both average response times and fairness, data-intensive computing execution engines generally do not employ size-based schedulers, mainly because of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-22 Matteo Dell'Amico

In this paper we study the classical problem of throughput maximization. In this problem we have a collection $J$ of $n$ jobs, each having a release time $r_j$, deadline $d_j$, and processing time $p_j$. They have to be scheduled…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Dylan Hyatt-Denesik , Mirmahdi Rahgoshay , Mohammad R. Salavatipour

The paper considers single-machine scheduling problems with a non-renewable resource. In this setting, we are given a set jobs, each of which is characterized by a processing time, a weight, and the job also has some resource requirement.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Kristóf Bérczi , Tamás Király , Simon Omlor

We are concerned with the problem of scheduling $n$ jobs onto $m$ identical machines. Each machine has to be in operation for a prescribed time, and the objective is to minimize the total machine working time. Precisely, let $c_i$ be the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yi-Ting Hsieh , Mong-Jen Kao , Jhong-Yun Liu , Hung-Lung Wang

We consider the following general scheduling problem: The input consists of n jobs, each with an arbitrary release time, size, and a monotone function specifying the cost incurred when the job is completed at a particular time. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-31 Nikhil Bansal , Kirk Pruhs

Scheduling with testing is a recent online problem within the framework of explorable uncertainty motivated by environments where some preliminary action can influence the duration of a task. Jobs have an unknown processing time that can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Susanne Albers , Alexander Eckl

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

We consider the scheduling problem on $n$ strategic unrelated machines when no payments are allowed, under the objective of minimizing the makespan. We adopt the model introduced in [Koutsoupias, Theory Comput. Syst. (2014)] where a machine…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Yiannis Giannakopoulos , Elias Koutsoupias , Maria Kyropoulou

The problem of scheduling unrelated machines has been studied since the inception of algorithmic mechanism design \cite{NR99}. It is a resource allocation problem that entails assigning $m$ tasks to $n$ machines for execution. Machines are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Yansong Gao , Jie Zhang

The (Non-Preemptive) Throughput Maximization problem is a natural and fundamental scheduling problem. We are given $n$ jobs, where each job $j$ is characterized by a processing time and a time window, contained in a global interval $[0,T)$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alexander Armbruster , Fabrizio Grandoni , Antoine Tinguely , Andreas Wiese

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

In modern computing systems, jobs' resource requirements often vary over time. Accounting for this temporal variability during job scheduling is essential for meeting performance goals. However, theoretical understanding on how to schedule…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Yige Hong , Qiaomin Xie , Weina Wang