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We consider the coflow scheduling problem in the non-clairvoyant setting, assuming that flow sizes are realized on-line according to given probability distributions. The goal is to minimize the weighted average completion time of coflows in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Olivier Brun , Balakrishna J. Prabhu

The scheduling literature has traditionally focused on a single type of resource (e.g., computing nodes). However, scientific applications in modern High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems process large amounts of data, hence have diverse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Lucas Perotin , Hongyang Sun , Padma Raghavan

With multiple identical unit speed servers, the online problem of scheduling jobs that migrate between two phases, limitedly parallelizable or completely sequential, and choosing their respective speeds to minimize the total flow time is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Rahul Vaze

We provide an algorithm giving a $\frac{140}{41}$($<3.415$)-approximation for Coflow Scheduling and a $4.36$-approximation for Coflow Scheduling with release dates. This improves upon the best known $4$- and respectively $5$-approximations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Lars Rohwedder , Leander Schnaars

This paper addresses the problem of scheduling jobs on identical machines with conflict constraints, where certain jobs cannot be scheduled simultaneously on different machines. We focus on the case where conflicts can be represented by a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Nour ElHouda Tellache , Lydia Aoudia , Mourad Boudhar

We study the problem of preemptive scheduling of n equal-length jobs with given release times on m identical parallel machines. The objective is to minimize the average flow time. Recently, Brucker and Kravchenko proved that the optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Philippe Baptiste , Marek Chrobak , Christoph Durr , Francis Sourd

We consider the flow network model to solve the multiprocessor real-time task scheduling problems. Using the flow network model or its generic form, linear programming (LP) formulation, for the problems is not new. However, the previous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Hyeonjoong Cho , Arvind Easwaran

We consider the following shared-resource scheduling problem: Given a set of jobs $J$, for each $j\in J$ we must schedule a job-specific processing volume of $v_j>0$. A total resource of $1$ is available at any time. Jobs have a resource…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Christoph Damerius , Peter Kling , Florian Schneider

We study the problem of executing an application represented by a precedence task graph on a parallel machine composed of standard computing cores and accelerators. Contrary to most existing approaches, we distinguish the allocation and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Marcos Amaris , Giorgio Lucarelli , Clément Mommessin , Denis Trystram

We consider the problem of scheduling $n$ precedence-constrained jobs on $m$ uniformly-related machines in the presence of an arbitrary, fixed communication delay $\rho$. We consider a model that allows job duplication, i.e. processing of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Biswaroop Maiti , Rajmohan Rajaraman , David Stalfa , Zoya Svitkina , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Collaborative edge computing has become a popular paradigm where edge devices collaborate by sharing resources. Data dissemination is a fundamental problem in CEC to decide what data is transmitted from which device and how. Existing works…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yuvraj Sahni , Jiannong Cao , Lei Yang , Shengwei Wang

We investigate deterministic non-preemptive online scheduling with delayed commitment for total completion time minimization on parallel identical machines. In this problem, jobs arrive one-by-one and their processing times are revealed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Uwe Schwiegelshohn

We study the problem of preemptive scheduling n jobs with given release times on m identical parallel machines. The objective is to minimize the average flow time. We show that when all jobs have equal processing times then the problem can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Philippe Baptiste , Peter Brucker , Marek Chrobak , Christoph Durr , Svetlana A. Kravchenko , Francis Sourd

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

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

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

This paper studies the fundamental problem of how to reroute $k$ unsplittable flows of a certain demand in a capacitated network from their current paths to their respective new paths, in a congestion-free manner and fast. This scheduling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri , Szymon Dudycz , Mahmoud Parham , Stefan Schmid , Sebastian Wiederrecht

The interval scheduling problem is one variant of the scheduling problem. In this paper, we propose a novel variant of the interval scheduling problem, whose definition is as follows: given jobs are specified by their {\em release times},…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Koji M. Kobayashi

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

We study shared processor scheduling of $\textit{multiprocessor}$ weighted jobs where each job can be executed on its private processor and simultaneously on possibly $\textit{many}$ processors shared by all jobs in order to reduce their…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Dariusz Dereniowski , Wieslaw Kubiak