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Makespan minimization on unrelated machines is a classic problem in approximation algorithms. No polynomial time $(2-\delta)$-approximation algorithm is known for the problem for constant $\delta> 0$. This is true even for certain special…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Sanjeev Khanna , Shi Li

In this paper we consider the classic scheduling problem of minimizing total weighted completion time on unrelated machines when jobs have release times, i.e, $R | r_{ij} | \sum_j w_j C_j$ using the three-field notation. For this problem, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Sungjin Im , Shi Li

We introduce a parallel machine scheduling problem in which the processing times of jobs are not given in advance but are determined by a system of linear constraints. The objective is to minimize the makespan, i.e., the maximum job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Kameng Nip , Zhenbo Wang , Zizhuo Wang

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

In the problem called single resource constraint scheduling, we are given $m$ identical machines and a set of jobs, each needing one machine to be processed as well as a share of a limited renewable resource $R$. A schedule of these jobs is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Klaus Jansen , Malin Rau

Motivated by green manufacturing, this paper investigates a scheduling with rejection problem subject to an energy consumption constraint. Machines are associated with non-uniform energy consumption rates, defined as the energy consumed per…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Mingyang Gong , Brendan Mumey

In this paper we study a scheduling problem arising from executing numerical simulations on HPC architectures. With a constant number of parallel machines, the objective is to minimize the makespan under memory constraints for the machines.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Eric Angel , Sébastien Morais , Damien Regnault

This paper studies the bicriteria problem of scheduling $n$ jobs on a serial-batch machine to minimize makespan and maximum cost simultaneously. A serial-batch machine can process up to $b$ jobs as a batch, where $b$ is known as the batch…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shuguang Li , Zhenxin Wen , Jing Wei

We consider a new scheduling problem on parallel identical machines in which the number of machines is initially not known, but it follows a given probability distribution. Only after all jobs are assigned to a given number of bags, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Moritz Buchem , Franziska Eberle , Hugo Kooki Kasuya Rosado , Kevin Schewior , Andreas Wiese

Budget Minimization is a scheduling problem with precedence constraints, i.e., a scheduling problem on a partially ordered set of jobs $(N, \unlhd)$. A job $j \in N$ is available for scheduling, if all jobs $i \in N$ with $i \unlhd j$ are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Marinus Gottschau , Felix Happach , Marcus Kaiser , Clara Waldmann

The paper considers single-machine scheduling problems with a non-renewable resource. In this setting, we are given a set jobs, each of which is characterized by a processing time, a weight, and the job also has some resource requirement.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Kristóf Bérczi , Tamás Király , Simon Omlor

This paper presents improved approximation algorithms for the problem of multiprocessor scheduling under uncertainty, or SUU, in which the execution of each job may fail probabilistically. This problem is motivated by the increasing use of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-02-19 Christopher Crutchfield , Zoran Dzunic , Jeremy T. Fineman , David R. Karger , Jacob Scott

The restricted max-min fair allocation problem (also known as the restricted Santa Claus problem) is one of few problems that enjoys the intriguing status of having a better estimation algorithm than approximation algorithm. Indeed,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Lukas Polacek , Ola Svensson

We study ordinal makespan scheduling on small numbers of identical machines, with respect to two parallel solutions. In ordinal scheduling, it is known that jobs are sorted by non-increasing sizes, but the specific sizes are not known in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Leah Epstein

This paper considers scheduling on identical machines. The scheduling objective considered in this paper generalizes most scheduling minimization problems. In the problem, there are $n$ jobs and each job $j$ is associated with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Benjamin Moseley

The Chance-Constrained Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem (CC-PMSP) assigns jobs with uncertain processing times to machines, ensuring that each machine's availability constraints are met with a certain probability. We present a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Nicolás Casassus , Margarita Castro , Gustavo Angulo

We consider job scheduling settings, with multiple machines, where jobs arrive online and choose a machine selfishly so as to minimize their cost. Our objective is the classic makespan minimization objective, which corresponds to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Michal Feldman , Amos Fiat , Alan Roytman

The speed-robust scheduling problem is a two-stage problem where given $m$ machines, jobs must be grouped into at most $m$ bags while the processing speeds of the given $m$ machines are unknown. After the speeds are revealed, the grouped…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Franziska Eberle , Ruben Hoeksma , Nicole Megow , Lukas Nölke , Kevin Schewior , Bertrand Simon

We consider the classical makespan minimization scheduling problem where $n$ jobs must be scheduled on $m$ identical machines. Using weighted random sampling, we developed two sublinear time approximation schemes: one for the case where $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

We consider the scheduling problem on $n$ strategic unrelated machines when no payments are allowed, under the objective of minimizing the makespan. We adopt the model introduced in [Koutsoupias, Theory Comput. Syst. (2014)] where a machine…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Yiannis Giannakopoulos , Elias Koutsoupias , Maria Kyropoulou