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We study the problem of scheduling jobs on parallel machines minimizing the total completion time, with each job using exactly one resource. First, we derive fundamental properties of the problem and show that the problem is polynomially…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-11-19 T. Janssen , C. Swennenhuis , A. Bitar , T. Bosman , D. Gijswijt , L. van Iersel , S. Dauzére-Pérès , C. Yugma

We study the scheduling problem on unrelated machines in the mechanism design setting. This problem was proposed and studied in the seminal paper (Nisan and Ronen 1999), where they gave a 1.75-approximation randomized truthful mechanism for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Pinyan Lu , Changyuan Yu

Machine scheduling problems involving conflict jobs can be seen as a constrained version of the classical scheduling problem, in which some jobs are conflict in the sense that they cannot be proceeded simultaneously on different machines.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Minh Hoàng Hà , Dinh Quy Ta , Trung Thanh Nguyen

In parallel machine scheduling, we are given a set of jobs, together with a number of machines and our goal is to decide for each job, when and on which machine(s) it should be scheduled in order to minimize some objective function.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Klaus Jansen , Kai Kahler

We are concerned with the problem of scheduling $n$ jobs onto $m$ identical machines. Each machine has to be in operation for a prescribed time, and the objective is to minimize the total machine working time. Precisely, let $c_i$ be the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yi-Ting Hsieh , Mong-Jen Kao , Jhong-Yun Liu , Hung-Lung Wang

For job scheduling systems, where jobs require some amount of processing and then leave the system, it is natural for each user to provide an estimate of their job's time requirement in order to aid the scheduler. However, if there is no…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Isaac Grosof , Michael Mitzenmacher

Scheduling jobs with given processing times on identical parallel machines so as to minimize their total completion time is one of the most basic scheduling problems. We study interesting generalizations of this classical problem involving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Thomas Bosman , Martijn van Ee , Ekin Ergen , Csanad Imreh , Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela , Martin Skutella , Leen Stougie

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

We consider a recently introduced fair repetitive scheduling problem involving a set of clients, each asking for their associated job to be daily scheduled on a single machine across a finite planning horizon. The goal is to determine a job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Danny Hermelin , Danny Segev , Dvir Shabtay

Effective periods were defined by Kontsevich and Zagier as complex numbers whose real and imaginary parts are values of absolutely convergent integrals of $\mathbb{Q}$-rational functions over $\mathbb{Q}$-semi-algebraic domains in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-15 Jacky Cresson , Juan Viu-Sos

This paper considers parallel machine scheduling with incompatibilities between jobs. The jobs form a graph and no two jobs connected by an edge are allowed to be assigned to the same machine. In particular, we study the case where the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Klaus Jansen , Alexandra Lassota , Marten Maack , Tytus Pikies

We study the problem of fairly assigning a set of discrete tasks (or chores) among a set of agents with additive valuations. Each chore is associated with a start and finish time, and each agent can perform at most one chore at any given…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Sarfaraz Equbal , Rohit Gurjar , Yatharth Kumar , Swaprava Nath , Raghuvansh Saxena , Rohit Vaish

We study sequential interval scheduling when task start and end times are random. The set of tasks and their weights are known in advance, while each task's start and end times are drawn from known discrete distributions and revealed only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Rui Gong , Alejandro Toriello

Real time system technology traditionally developed for safety critical systems, has now been extended to support multimedia systems and virtual reality. A large number of real-time application, related to multimedia and adaptive control…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2012-12-17 Shri Prakash Dwivedi

In moldable job scheduling, we are provided $m$ identical machines and $n$ jobs that can be executed on a variable number of machines. The execution time of each job depends on the number of machines assigned to execute that job. For the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Klaus Jansen , Felix Ohnesorge

In this paper we study the global scheduling of periodic task systems upon multiprocessor platforms. We first show two very general properties which are well-known for uniprocessor platforms and which remain for multiprocessor platforms:…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2008-01-29 Liliana Cucu , Joël Goossens

Classical list scheduling is a very popular and efficient technique for scheduling jobs in parallel and distributed platforms. It is inherently centralized. However, with the increasing number of processors, the cost for managing a single…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-07-20 Marc Tchiboukdjian , Nicolas Gast , Denis Trystram

We consider a game-theoretic variant of an interval scheduling problem. Every job is associated with a length, a weight, and a color. Each player controls all the jobs of a specific color, and needs to decide on a processing interval for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Vipin Ravindran Vijayalakshmi , Marc Schroder , Tami Tamir

We study a fair resource scheduling problem, where a set of interval jobs are to be allocated to heterogeneous machines controlled by agents. Each job is associated with release time, deadline, and processing time such that it can be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Bo Li , Minming Li , Ruilong 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