English
Related papers

Related papers: An Improved Greedy Algorithm for Stochastic Online…

200 papers

We reinterpret some online greedy algorithms for a class of nonlinear "load-balancing" problems as solving a mathematical program online. For example, we consider the problem of assigning jobs to (unrelated) machines to minimize the sum of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-09-28 Anupam Gupta , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Kirk Pruhs

We study the online busy time scheduling model on heterogeneous machines. In our setting, jobs with uniform length arrive online with a deadline that becomes known to the algorithm at the job's arrival time. An algorithm has access to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Gruia Calinescu , Sami Davies , Samir Khuller , Shirley Zhang

We consider online scheduling on unrelated (heterogeneous) machines in a speed-oblivious setting, where an algorithm is unaware of the exact job-dependent processing speeds. We show strong impossibility results for clairvoyant and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Alexander Lindermayr , Nicole Megow , Martin Rapp

In malleable job scheduling, jobs can be executed simultaneously on multiple machines with the processing time depending on the number of allocated machines. In this setting, jobs are required to be executed non-preemptively and in unison,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Dimitris Fotakis , Jannik Matuschke , Orestis Papadigenopoulos

Online bipartite matching with edge arrivals remained a major open question for a long time until a recent negative result by [Gamlath et al. FOCS 2019], who showed that no online policy is better than the straightforward greedy algorithm,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Nick Gravin , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Kangning Wang

We consider an online preemptive scheduling problem where jobs with deadlines arrive sporadically. A commitment requirement is imposed such that the scheduler has to either accept or decline a job immediately upon arrival. The scheduler's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-07 Shiyao Chen , Lang Tong , Ting He

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 study the online preemptive scheduling of intervals and jobs (with restarts). Each interval or job has an arrival time, a deadline, a length and a weight. The objective is to maximize the total weight of completed intervals or jobs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Stanley P. Y. Fung , Chung Keung Poon , Feifeng Zheng

We consider the problem of scheduling in multi-class, parallel-server queuing systems with uncertain rewards from job-server assignments. In this scenario, jobs incur holding costs while awaiting completion, and job-server assignments yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jung-hun Kim , Milan Vojnovic

We consider a distributed computing network consisting of a master and multiple workers processing tasks of different types. The master is running multiple applications. Each application stochastically generates real-time jobs with a strict…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Yu-Pin Hsu , Yu-Chih Huang , Shin-Lin Shieh

We consider the online scheduling problem of moldable task graphs on multiprocessor systems for minimizing the overall completion time (or makespan). Moldable job scheduling has been widely studied in the literature, in particular when…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Lucas Perotin , Hongyang Sun

We study the problem of scheduling periodic real-time tasks so as to meet their individual minimum reward requirements. A task generates jobs that can be given arbitrary service times before their deadlines. A task then obtains rewards…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-07-06 I-Hong Hou , P. R. Kumar

In this paper we consider greedy scheduling algorithms in wireless networks, i.e., the schedules are computed by adding links greedily based on some priority vector. Two special cases are considered: 1) Longest Queue First (LQF) scheduling,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Qiao Li , Rohit Negi

We consider the classical problem of minimizing the total weighted flow-time for unrelated machines in the online \emph{non-clairvoyant} setting. In this problem, a set of jobs $J$ arrive over time to be scheduled on a set of $M$ machines.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Sungjin Im , Janardhan Kulkarni , Kamesh Munagala , Kirk Pruhs

In a large-scale computing cluster, the job completions can be substantially delayed due to two sources of variability, namely, variability in the job size and that in the machine service capacity. To tackle this issue, existing works have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Huanle Xu , Gustavo de Veciana , Wing Cheong Lau , Kunxiao Zhou

We consider the classical scheduling problem on a single machine, on which we need to schedule sequentially $n$ given jobs. Every job $j$ has a processing time $p_j$ and a priority weight $w_j$, and for a given schedule a completion time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Nikhil Bansal , Christoph Dürr , Nguyen Kim Thang , Óscar C. Vásquez

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

We contribute the first randomized algorithm that is an integration of arbitrarily many deterministic algorithms for the fully online multiprocessor scheduling with testing problem. When there are two machines, we show that with two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Mingyang Gong , Zhi-Zhong Chen , Guohui Lin , Lusheng Wang

We consider a multi-organizational system in which each organization contributes processors to the global pool but also jobs to be processed on the common resources. The fairness of the scheduling algorithm is essential for the stability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Piotr Skowron , Krzysztof Rzadca

We study the online load balancing problem on unrelated machines, with the objective of minimizing the square of the $\ell_2$ norm of the loads on the machines. The greedy algorithm of Awerbuch et al. (STOC'95) is optimal for deterministic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Sander Borst , Danish Kashaev