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Learning-augmented algorithms have emerged as a powerful paradigm to surpass traditional worst-case lower bounds by integrating potentially noisy predictions. While this framework has seen success in online scheduling, existing work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mugen Blue , Sungjin Im , Alexander Lindermayr

A basic combinatorial online resource allocation problem is considered, where multiple servers have individual capacity constraints, and at each time slot, a set of jobs arrives, that have potentially different weights to different servers.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Ajil Jalal , Rahul Vaze , Umang Bhaskar

The integration of intermittent and stochastic renewable energy resources requires increased flexibility in the operation of the electric grid. Storage, broadly speaking, provides the flexibility of shifting energy over time; network, on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-05 Junjie Qin , Yinlam Chow , Jiyan Yang , Ram Rajagopal

Consider a problem in which $n$ jobs that are classified into $k$ types arrive over time at their release times and are to be scheduled on a single machine so as to minimize the maximum flow time. The machine requires a setup taking $s$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Alexander Mäcker , Manuel Malatyali , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide , Sören Riechers

Partitioned multiprocessor scheduling has been widely accepted in academia and industry to statically assign and partition real-time tasks onto identical multiprocessor systems. This paper studies fixed-priority partitioned multiprocessor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Jian-Jia Chen

We consider the problem of scheduling in constrained queueing networks with a view to minimizing packet delay. Modern communication systems are becoming increasingly complex, and are required to handle multiple types of traffic with widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Mohammani Zaki , Avi Mohan , Aditya Gopalan , Shie Mannor

In non-clairvoyant scheduling, the task is to find an online strategy for scheduling jobs with a priori unknown processing requirements with the objective to minimize the total (weighted) completion time. We revisit this well-studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Alexander Lindermayr , Nicole Megow

We consider non-clairvoyant scheduling with online precedence constraints, where an algorithm is oblivious to any job dependencies and learns about a job only if all of its predecessors have been completed. Given strong impossibility…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Alexandra Lassota , Alexander Lindermayr , Nicole Megow , Jens Schlöter

We study stationary online bipartite matching, where both types of nodes--offline and online--arrive according to Poisson processes. Offline nodes wait to be matched for some random time, determined by an exponential distribution, while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Alireza AmaniHamedani , Ali Aouad , Tristan Pollner , Amin Saberi

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

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

This paper addresses a complex parallel machine scheduling problem with jobs divided into operations and operations grouped in families. Non-anticipatory family setup times are held at the beginning of each batch, defined by the combination…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Davi Mecler , Victor Abu-Marrul , Rafael Martinelli , Arild Hoff

In this study, we investigated several online and semi-online scheduling problems on two hierarchical machines with a common due date to maximize the total early work. For the pure online case, we designed an optimal online algorithm with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Man Xiao , Xiaoqiao Liu , Weidong Li , Xin Chen , Malgorzata Sterna , Jacek Blazewicz

We consider the online problem of scheduling jobs on identical machines, where jobs have precedence constraints. We are interested in the demanding setting where the jobs sizes are not known up-front, but are revealed only upon completion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Naveen Garg , Anupam Gupta , Amit Kumar , Sahil Singla

We consider the online resource minimization problem in which jobs with hard deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates. The task is to determine a feasible schedule on a minimum number of machines. We rigorously study this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Lin Chen , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior

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 consider the problem of online scheduling on a single machine in order to minimize weighted flow time. The existing algorithms for this problem (STOC '01, SODA '03, FOCS '18) all require exact knowledge of the processing time of each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Yossi Azar , Stefano Leonardi , Noam Touitou

We study online weighted bipartite matching of reusable resources where an adversarial sequence of requests for resources arrive over time. A resource that is matched is 'used' for a random duration, drawn independently from a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Jackie Baek , Shixin Wang

The problem of online scheduling of multi-server jobs is considered, where there are a total of $K$ servers, and each job requires concurrent service from multiple servers for it to be processed. Each job on its arrival reveals its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Rahul Vaze

We consider the online busy time scheduling problem motivated by energy and cost minimization in cloud computing systems. The input is a set of jobs $J=\{1,\dots,n\}$ where each job $j\in J$ has a release time $r_j$, deadline $d_j$, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Susanne Albers , G. Wessel van der Heijden