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The task of scheduling jobs to machines while minimizing the total makespan, the sum of weighted completion times, or a norm of the load vector, are among the oldest and most fundamental tasks in combinatorial optimization. Since all of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Martin Koutecký , Johannes Zink

In real-time systems, in addition to the functional correctness recurrent tasks must fulfill timing constraints to ensure the correct behavior of the system. Partitioned scheduling is widely used in real-time systems, i.e., the tasks are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Jian-Jia Chen , Nikhil Bansal , Samarjit Chakraborty , Georg von der Brüggen

We consider allocating indivisible chores among agents with different cost functions, such that all agents receive a cost of at most a constant factor times their maximin share. The state-of-the-art was presented in In EC 2021 by Huang and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Xin Huang , Erel Segal-Halevi

Motivated by deep neural network applications, we study the problem of scheduling splittable jobs (e.g., neural network inference tasks) on configurable machines (e.g., multi-instance GPUs). We are given $n$ jobs and a set $C$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Matthew Casey , Rajmohan Rajaraman , David Stalfa

We study the restricted case of Scheduling on Unrelated Parallel Machines. In this problem, we are given a set of jobs $J$ with processing times $p_j$ and each job may be scheduled only on some subset of machines $S_j \subseteq M$. The goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Chidambaram Annamalai

We investigate multi-organizational scheduling problems, building upon the framework introduced by Pascual et al.[2009]. In this setting, multiple organizations each own a set of identical machines and sequential jobs with distinct…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jiehua Chen , Martin Durand , Christian Hatschka

In the paper we consider the problem of scheduling $n$ identical jobs on 4 uniform machines with speeds $s_1 \geq s_2 \geq s_3 \geq s_4,$ respectively. Our aim is to find a schedule with a minimum possible length. We assume that jobs are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-08 H. Furmanczyk , M. Kubale

Generalizing many well-known and natural scheduling problems, scheduling with job-specific cost functions has gained a lot of attention recently. In this setting, each job incurs a cost depending on its completion time, given by a private…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-07 Wiebke Höhn , Julián Mestre , Andreas Wiese

We provide polynomial-time approximately optimal Bayesian mechanisms for makespan minimization on unrelated machines as well as for max-min fair allocations of indivisible goods, with approximation factors of $2$ and $\min\{m-k+1,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-26 Constantinos Daskalakis , S. Matthew Weinberg

We consider the problem of scheduling $n$ jobs to minimize the makespan on $m$ unrelated machines, where job $j$ requires time $p_{ij}$ if processed on machine $i$. A classic algorithm of Lenstra et al. yields the best known approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Dor Arad , Yael Mordechai , Hadas Shachnai

The paper considers scheduling on parallel machines under the constraint that some pairs of jobs cannot be processed concurrently. Each job has an associated weight, and all jobs have the same deadline. The objective is to maximise the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yakov Zinder , Joanna Berlińska , Charlie Peter

We introduce a parallel machine scheduling problem in which the processing times of jobs are not given in advance but are determined by a system of linear constraints. The objective is to minimize the makespan, i.e., the maximum job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Kameng Nip , Zhenbo Wang , Zizhuo Wang

In a classical problem in scheduling, one has $n$ unit size jobs with a precedence order and the goal is to find a schedule of those jobs on $m$ identical machines as to minimize the makespan. It is one of the remaining four open problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Elaine Levey , Thomas Rothvoss

We study the problem of scheduling $n$ independent moldable tasks on $m$ processors that arises in large-scale parallel computations. When tasks are monotonic, the best known result is a $(\frac{3}{2}+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Xiaohu Wu , Patrick Loiseau

This report considers a sporadic real-time task system with $n$ sporadic tasks on a uniprocessor platform, in which the lowest-priority task is a segmented self-suspension task and the other higher-priority tasks are ordinary sporadic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Jian-Jia Chen

We study the problem of scheduling precedence-constrained jobs on heterogenous machines in the presence of non-uniform job and machine communication delays. We are given as input $n$ unit size precedence-ordered jobs and $m$ related…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Rajmohan Rajaraman , David Stalfa , Sheng Yang

Deep learning has been effectively applied to many discrete optimization problems. However, learning-based scheduling on unrelated parallel machines remains particularly difficult to design. Not only do the numbers of jobs and machines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Diego Hitzges , Guillaume Sagnol

In parallel machine scheduling, we are given a set of jobs, together with a number of machines and our goal is to decide for each job, when and on which machine(s) it should be scheduled in order to minimize some objective function.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Klaus Jansen , Kai Kahler

In this paper, we proposed an effective approach for scheduling of multiprocessor unit time tasks with chain precedence on to large multiprocessor system. The proposed longest chain maximum processor scheduling algorithm is proved to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-14 T. K. Agrawal , R. Sharma , M. Ghose , A. Sahu

Resource allocation in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments presents a complex and multifaceted challenge for job scheduling algorithms. Beyond the efficient allocation of system resources, schedulers must account for and optimize…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Matthew Sgambati , Aleksandar Vakanski , Matthew Anderson