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This paper presents a profound analysis of the robust job scheduling problem with uncertain release dates on unrelated machines. Our model involves minimizing the worst-case makespan and interval uncertainty where each release date belongs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Mirosław Ławrynowicz , Jerzy Józefczyk

The problem of scheduling unrelated machines has been studied since the inception of algorithmic mechanism design \cite{NR99}. It is a resource allocation problem that entails assigning $m$ tasks to $n$ machines for execution. Machines are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Yansong Gao , Jie Zhang

We consider variants of the restricted assignment problem where a set of jobs has to be assigned to a set of machines, for each job a size and a set of eligible machines is given, and the jobs may only be assigned to eligible machines with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Marten Maack , Simon Pukrop , Anna Rodriguez Rasmussen

This paper resolves a long-standing open question in bicriteria scheduling regarding the complexity of a single machine scheduling problem which combines the number of tardy jobs and the maximal tardiness criteria. We use the lexicographic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Klaus Heeger , Danny Hermelin , Michael L. Pinedo , Dvir Shabtay

Parameterizing by the largest processing time $p_{max}$ and the number of different job processing times $d$, we propose a proximity technique for High-Multiplicity Scheduling on Uniform Machines for the objectives Makespan Minimization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Hauke Brinkop , David Fischer , Klaus Jansen

In the paper we consider the problem of scheduling $n$ identical jobs on 4 uniform machines with speeds $s_1 \geq s_2 \geq s_3 \geq s_4,$ respectively. Our aim is to find a schedule with a minimum possible length. We assume that jobs are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-08 H. Furmanczyk , M. Kubale

We consider the minimum makespan problem for $n$ tasks and two unrelated parallel selfish machines. Let $R_n$ be the best approximation ratio of randomized monotone scale-free algorithms. This class contains the most efficient algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Olga Kuryatnikova , Juan C. Vera

Makespan minimization on parallel identical machines is a classical and intensively studied problem in scheduling, and a classic example for online algorithm analysis with Graham's famous list scheduling algorithm dating back to the 1960s.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Leah Epstein , Alexandra Lassota , Asaf Levin , Marten Maack , Lars Rohwedder

In this paper, we consider an NP-hard problem of scheduling a set of jobs of equal processing time on two machines, given a partial precedence order on the set of jobs, with an objective to minimize the makespan. An approximation algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Anna Romanova

Assigning jobs onto identical machines with the objective to minimize the maximal load is one of the most basic problems in combinatorial optimization. Motivated by product planing and data placement, we study a natural extension called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Klaus Jansen , Alexandra Lassota , Marten Maack

The problem of scheduling non-simultaneously released jobs with due dates on a single machine with the objective to minimize the maximum job lateness is known to be strongly NP-hard. Here we consider an extended model in which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Nodari Vakhania , Frank Werner , Alejandro Reynoso

Consider the many shared resource scheduling problem where jobs have to be scheduled on identical parallel machines with the goal of minimizing the makespan. However, each job needs exactly one additional shared resource in order to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Max A. Deppert , Klaus Jansen , Marten Maack , Simon Pukrop , Malin Rau

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

A very well-known machine model in scheduling allows the machines to be unrelated, modelling jobs that might have different characteristics on each machine. Due to its generality, many optimization problems of this form are very difficult…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-07 Vincenzo Bonifaci , Andreas Wiese

In this paper, we study an NP-hard problem of a single machine scheduling minimizing the makespan, where the mixed-critical tasks with an uncertain processing time are scheduled. We show the derivation of F-shaped tasks from the probability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Antonin Novak , Premysl Sucha , Zdenek Hanzalek

Algorithms with predictions is a recent framework that has been used to overcome pessimistic worst-case bounds in incomplete information settings. In the context of scheduling, very recent work has leveraged machine-learned predictions to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Eric Balkanski , Tingting Ou , Clifford Stein , Hao-Ting Wei

The (Non-Preemptive) Throughput Maximization problem is a natural and fundamental scheduling problem. We are given $n$ jobs, where each job $j$ is characterized by a processing time and a time window, contained in a global interval $[0,T)$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alexander Armbruster , Fabrizio Grandoni , Antoine Tinguely , Andreas Wiese

We consider the problem of scheduling $n$ precedence-constrained jobs on $m$ uniformly-related machines in the presence of an arbitrary, fixed communication delay $\rho$. We consider a model that allows job duplication, i.e. processing of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Biswaroop Maiti , Rajmohan Rajaraman , David Stalfa , Zoya Svitkina , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

We study policies aiming to minimize the weighted sum of completion times of jobs in the context of coordination mechanisms for selfish scheduling problems. Our goal is to design local policies that achieve a good price of anarchy in the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-23 Richard Cole , José R. Correa , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Vahab Mirrokni , Neil Olver

The task of scheduling jobs to machines while minimizing the total makespan, the sum of weighted completion times, or a norm of the load vector, are among the oldest and most fundamental tasks in combinatorial optimization. Since all of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Martin Koutecký , Johannes Zink