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This work considers the problem of decentralized online learning, where the goal is to track the optimum of the sum of time-varying functions, distributed across several nodes in a network. The local availability of the functions and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Shivangi Dubey Sharma , Ketan Rajawat

We consider a fundamental online scheduling problem in which jobs with processing times and deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates. The task is to determine a feasible preemptive schedule on a single or multiple possibly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Franziska Eberle , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior

In this paper, we study an optimal online resource reservation problem in a simple communication network. The network is composed of two compute nodes linked by a local communication link. The system operates in discrete time; at each time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Ahmed Sid-Ali , Ioannis Lambadaris , Yiqiang Q. Zhao , Gennady Shaikhet , Shima Kheradmand

We study online interval scheduling in the irrevocable setting, where each interval must be immediately accepted or rejected upon arrival. The objective is to maximize the total length of accepted intervals while ensuring that no two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Antonios Antoniadis , Ali Shahheidar , Golnoosh Shahkarami , Abolfazl Soltani

A speed scaling problem is considered, where time is divided into slots, and jobs with payoff $v$ arrive at the beginning of the slot with associated deadlines $d$. Each job takes one slot to be processed, and multiple jobs can be processed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Goonwanth Reddy , Rahul Vaze

Consider a system in which tasks of different execution times arrive continuously and have to be executed by a set of processors that are prone to crashes and restarts. In this paper we model and study the impact of parallelism and failures…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Antonio Fernández Anta , Chryssis Georgiou , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Elli Zavou

Existing approaches to resource allocation for nowadays stochastic networks are challenged to meet fast convergence and tolerable delay requirements. The present paper leverages online learning advances to facilitate stochastic resource…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Tianyi Chen , Aryan Mokhtari , Xin Wang , Alejandro Ribeiro , Georgios B. Giannakis

This paper studies the online scheduling problem of minimizing total flow time for $n$ jobs on $m$ identical machines. A classical $\Omega(n)$ lower bound shows that no deterministic single-machine algorithm can beat the trivial greedy,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yutong Geng , Enze Sun , Zonghan Yang , Yuhao Zhang

In this paper two scheduling models are addressed. First is the standard model (unicast) where requests (or jobs) are independent. The other is the broadcast model where broadcasting a page can satisfy multiple outstanding requests for that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-07-14 Chandra Chekuri , Benjamin Moseley

Multiserver-job systems, where jobs require concurrent service at many servers, occur widely in practice. Essentially all of the theoretical work on multiserver-job systems focuses on maximizing utilization, with almost nothing known about…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Isaac Grosof , Ziv Scully , Mor Harchol-Balter , Alan Scheller-Wolf

We study the online scheduling problem where the machines need to be calibrated before processing any jobs. To calibrate a machine, it will take $\lambda$ time steps as the activation time, and then the machine will remain calibrated status…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Zuzhi Chen , Jialin Zhang

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

We present and study a new model for energy-aware and profit-oriented scheduling on a single processor. The processor features dynamic speed scaling as well as suspension to a sleep mode. Jobs arrive over time, are preemptable, and have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-14 Peter Kling , Andreas Cord-Landwehr , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn

We consider the problem of minimizing the weighted makespan on a single machine with restarts. Restarts are similar to preemptions but weaker: a job can be interrupted, but then it has to be run again from the start instead of resuming at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Aflatoun Amouzandeh , Klaus Jansen , Lis Pirotton , Rob van Stee , Corinna Wambsganz

We discuss one of the most fundamental scheduling problem of processing jobs on a single machine to minimize the weighted flow time (weighted response time). Our main result is a $O(\log P)$-competitive algorithm, where $P$ is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Yossi Azar , Noam Touitou

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

We investigate online scheduling with commitment for parallel identical machines. Our objective is to maximize the total processing time of accepted jobs. As soon as a job has been submitted, the commitment constraint forces us to decide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Chris Schwiegelshohn , Uwe Schwiegelshohn

We consider an online scheduling problem, motivated by the issues present at the joints of networks using ATM and TCP/IP. Namely, IP packets have to broken down to small ATM cells and sent out before their deadlines, but cells corresponding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-04-14 Christoph Durr , Lukasz Jez , Nguyen Kim Thang

Multi-server jobs are imperative in modern cloud computing systems. A noteworthy feature of multi-server jobs is that, they usually request multiple computing devices simultaneously for their execution. How to schedule multi-server jobs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hailiang Zhao , Shuiguang Deng , Feiyi Chen , Jianwei Yin , Schahram Dustdar , Albert Y. Zomaya

We study the computational complexity of scheduling jobs on a single speed-scalable processor with the objective of capturing the trade-off between the (weighted) flow time and the energy consumption. This trade-off has been extensively…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Antonios Antoniadis , Denise Graafsma , Ruben Hoeksma , Maria Vlasiou