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This paper considers the online machine minimization problem, a basic real time scheduling problem. The setting for this problem consists of n jobs that arrive over time, where each job has a deadline by which it must be completed. The goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Sungjin Im , Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Clifford Stein

We study the problem of scheduling a set of jobs with release dates, deadlines and processing requirements (or works), on parallel speed-scaled processors so as to minimize the total energy consumption. We consider that both preemption and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-13 Eric Angel , Evripidis Bampis , Fadi Kacem , Dimitrios Letsios

We consider a parallel system of $m$ identical machines prone to unpredictable crashes and restarts, trying to cope with the continuous arrival of tasks to be executed. Tasks have different computational requirements (i.e., processing time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Elli Zavou , Antonio Fernández Anta

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

We address the tactical fixed job scheduling problem with spread-time constraints. In such a problem, there are a fixed number of classes of machines and a fixed number of groups of jobs. Jobs of the same group can only be processed by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Shuyu Zhou , Xiandong Zhang , Bo Chen , Steef van de Velde

In this paper we develop optimal algorithms in the binary-forking model for a variety of fundamental problems, including sorting, semisorting, list ranking, tree contraction, range minima, and ordered set union, intersection and difference.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Guy E. Blelloch , Jeremy T. Fineman , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

While previous work on energy-efficient algorithms focused on assumption that tasks can be assigned to any processor, we initially study the problem of task scheduling on restricted parallel processors. The objective is to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Xibo Jin , Fa Zhang , Ying Song , Liya Fan , Zhiyong Liu

We study the problem of minimizing total completion time on parallel machines subject to varying processing capacity. In this paper, we develop an approximation scheme for the problem under the data stream model where the input data is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

Rescheduling problems arise in a variety of situations where a previously planned schedule needs to be adjusted to deal with unforeseen events. A common problem is the arrival of new orders, i.e. jobs, which have to be integrated into the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Elena Rener , Fabio Salassa , Vincent T'kindt

The NP-hard scheduling problem P||C_max encompasses a set of tasks with known execution time which must be mapped to a set of identical machines such that the overall completion time is minimized. In this work, we improve existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Matthew Akram , Nikolai Maas , Peter Sanders , Dominik Schreiber

This paper considers single-machine scheduling problems in which a given solution, i.e. an ordered set of jobs, has to be improved as much as possible by re-sequencing the jobs. The need for rescheduling may arise in different contexts,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Gaia Nicosia , Andrea Pacifici , Ulrich Pferschy , Julia Resch , Giovanni Righini

Given n jobs with release dates, deadlines and processing times we consider the problem of scheduling them on m parallel machines so as to minimize the total energy consumed. Machines can enter a sleep state and they consume no energy in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Antonios Antoniadis , Naveen Garg , Gunjan Kumar , Nikhil Kumar

We consider a natural scheduling problem which arises in many distributed computing frameworks. Jobs with diverse resource requirements (e.g. memory requirements) arrive over time and must be served by a cluster of servers, each with a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Konstantinos Psychas , Javad Ghaderi

In this work we revisit the elementary scheduling problem $1||\sum p_j U_j$. The goal is to select, among $n$ jobs with processing times and due dates, a subset of jobs with maximum total processing time that can be scheduled in sequence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Nick Fischer , Leo Wennmann

In the classical problem of scheduling on unrelated parallel machines, a set of jobs has to be assigned to a set of machines. The jobs have a processing time depending on the machine and the goal is to minimize the makespan, that is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Klaus Jansen , Marten Maack

Scheduling problems are fundamental in combinatorial optimization. Much work has been done on approximation algorithms for NP-hard cases, but relatively little is known about exact solutions when some part of the input is a fixed parameter.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Dušan Knop , Martin Koutecký

Scheduling questions arise naturally in many different areas among which operating system design, compiling,... In real life systems, the characteristics of the jobs (such as release time and processing time) are usually unknown and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Julien Robert , Nicolas Schabanel

This paper addresses the incompatible case of parallel batch scheduling, where compatible jobs belong to the same family, and jobs from different families cannot be processed together in the same batch. The state-of-the-art constraint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Jorge A. Huertas , Pascal Van Hentenryck

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 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