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Quantum Computing is an emerging paradigm which is gathering a lot of popularity in the current scientific and technological community. Widely conceived as the next frontier of computation, Quantum Computing is still at the dawn of its…

A hypergraph ${\cal F}$ is a set family defined on vertex set $V$. The dual of ${\cal F}$ is the set of minimal subsets $H$ of $V$ such that $F\cap H \ne \emptyset$ for any $F\in {\cal F}$. The computation of the dual is equivalent to many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-02-23 Keisuke Murakami , Takeaki Uno

In order to solve Re-entrant Hybrid Flowshop (RHFS) scheduling problems and establish simulations and processing models, this paper uses Wolf Pack Algorithm (WPA) as global optimization. For local assignment, it takes minimum remaining time…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Zhonghua Han , Xutian Tian , Xiaoting Dong , Fanyi Xie

In this paper we describe HeSP, a complete simulation framework to study a general task scheduling-partitioning problem on heterogeneous architectures, which treats recursive task partitioning and scheduling decisions on equal footing.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Anton Rey , Francisco D. Igual , Manuel Prieto-Matías

Federated scheduling is a promising approach to schedule parallel real-time tasks on multi-cores, where each heavy task exclusively executes on a number of dedicated processors, while light tasks are treated as sequential sporadic tasks and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Xu Jiang , Nan Guan , Xiang Long , Wang Yi

In recent years with the advent of high bandwidth internet access availability, the cloud computing applications have boomed. With more and more applications being run over the cloud and an increase in the overall user base of the different…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Sandeep Kumar Patel , Avtar Singh

Makespan minimization in permutation flow-shop scheduling is a well-known hard combinatorial optimization problem. Among the 120 standard benchmark instances proposed by E. Taillard in 1993, 23 have remained unsolved for almost three…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Jan Gmys

We consider offline scheduling algorithms that incorporate speed scaling to address the bicriteria problem of minimizing energy consumption and a scheduling metric. For makespan, we give linear-time algorithms to compute all non-dominated…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David P. Bunde

This paper introduces a multi-period inspector scheduling problem (MPISP), which is a new variant of the multi-trip vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW). In the MPISP, each inspector is scheduled to perform a route in a given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-09-19 Hu Qin , Zizhen Zhang , Yubin Xie , Andrew Lim

Quantum computing (QC) is expected to solve incredibly difficult problems, including finding optimal solutions to combinatorial optimization problems. However, to date, QC alone is still far to demonstrate this capability except on…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-12-19 James B. Holliday , Eneko Osaba , Khoa Luu

Work-stealing is a widely used technique for balancing irregular parallel workloads, and most modern runtime systems adopt lock-free work-stealing deques to reduce contention and improve scalability. However, existing algorithms are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Raja Sai Nandhan Yadav Kataru , Danial Davarnia , Ali Jannesari

Coflow is a prominent network abstraction for modeling communication patterns in data centers. Since coflow scheduling in large-scale data centers is $\mathcal{NP}$-hard, this paper investigates this problem within heterogeneous parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chi-Yeh Chen

We consider the problem of minimizing the makespan in a flowshop involving maximal and minimal time lags. Time lag constraints generalize the classical precedence constraints between operations. We assume that such constraints are only…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Julien Fondrevelle , Ammar Oulamara , Marie-Claude Portmann

We introduce an open source python framework named PHS - Parallel Hyperparameter Search to enable hyperparameter optimization on numerous compute instances of any arbitrary python function. This is achieved with minimal modifications inside…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Peter Michael Habelitz , Janis Keuper

As the use of crowdsourcing increases, it is important to think about performance optimization. For this purpose, it is possible to think about each worker as a HPU(Human Processing Unit), and to draw inspiration from performance…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Chen Cao , Zheng Liu , Lei Chen , H. V. Jagadish

Efficiently solving large-scale sparse linear systems poses a significant challenge in computational science, especially in fields such as physics, engineering, machine learning, and finance. Traditional classical algorithms face…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 Hakikat Singh

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

The problem of task scheduling with communication delays is strongly NP-hard. State-space search algorithms such as A* have been shown to be a promising approach to solving small to medium sized instances optimally. A recently proposed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Michael Orr , Oliver Sinnen

This paper presents a multiagent approach as a paradigm for scheduling parallel jobs in a parallel system. Scheduling parallel jobs is performed as a means to balance the load of a system in order to improve the performance of a parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Jaderick P. Pabico

As computer clusters become more common and the size of the problems encountered in the field of AI grows, there is an increasing demand for efficient parallel inference algorithms. We consider the problem of parallel inference on large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Joseph E. Gonzalez , Yucheng Low , Carlos E. Guestrin , David O'Hallaron