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We describe in this paper a new method for building an efficient algorithm for scheduling jobs in a cluster. Jobs are considered as parallel tasks (PT) which can be scheduled on any number of processors. The main feature is to consider two…
Allen's interval algebra is one of the most well-known calculi in qualitative temporal reasoning with numerous applications in artificial intelligence. Recently, there has been a surge of improvements in the fine-grained complexity of…
Recently, the makespan-minimization problem of compiling a general class of quantum algorithms into near-term quantum processors has been introduced to the AI community. The research demonstrated that temporal planning is a strong approach…
In this paper, we consider the problem of scheduling an application on a parallel computational platform. The application is a particular task graph, either a linear chain of tasks, or a set of independent tasks. The platform is made of…
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…
Recently, the problem of multitasking scheduling has attracted a lot of attention in the service industries where workers frequently perform multiple tasks by switching from one task to another. Hall, Leung and Li (Discrete Applied…
We consider so-called $N$-fold integer programs (IPs) of the form $\max\{c^T x : Ax = b, \ell \leq x \leq u, x \in \mathbb Z^{nt}\}, where $A \in \mathbb Z^{(r+sn)\times nt} consists of $n$ arbitrary matrices $A^{(i)} \in \mathbb Z^{r\times…
Theoretical complexity is a vital subfield of computer science that enables us to mathematically investigate computation and answer many interesting queries about the nature of computational problems. It provides theoretical tools to assess…
We solve large-scale mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) via distributed asynchronous saddle point computation. This is motivated by the MILPs being able to model problems in multi-agent autonomy, e.g., task assignment problems and…
The development of cluster computing frameworks has allowed practitioners to scale out various statistical estimation and machine learning algorithms with minimal programming effort. This is especially true for machine learning problems…
We present a novel, highly efficient algorithm to parallelize O(N^2) direct summation method for N-body problems with individual timesteps on distributed-memory parallel machines such as Beowulf clusters. Previously known algorithms, in…
We consider the online busy time scheduling problem motivated by energy and cost minimization in cloud computing systems. The input is a set of jobs $J=\{1,\dots,n\}$ where each job $j\in J$ has a release time $r_j$, deadline $d_j$, and…
The Simplex tableau has been broadly used and investigated in the industry and academia. With the advent of the big data era, ever larger problems are posed to be solved in ever larger machines whose architecture type did not exist in the…
Model reduction, which aims to learn a simpler model of the original mixed integer linear programming (MILP), can solve large-scale MILP problems much faster. Most existing model reduction methods are based on variable reduction, which…
Packing and covering linear programs belong to the narrow class of linear programs that are efficiently solvable in parallel and distributed models of computation, yet are a powerful modeling tool for a wide range of fundamental problems in…
We present a new approach to parallelization of the first-order backward difference discretization (BDF1) of the time derivative in partial differential equations, such as the nonlinear heat and viscous Burgers equations. The time…
In this paper, we study the communication complexity for the problem of computing a conjunctive query on a large database in a parallel setting with $p$ servers. In contrast to previous work, where upper and lower bounds on the…
This paper introduces and approximately solves a multi-component problem where small rectangular items are produced from large rectangular bins via guillotine cuts. An item is characterized by its width, height, due date, and earliness and…
We address the optimal design of a large scale multi-agent system where each agent has discrete and/or continuous decision variables that need to be set so as to optimize the sum of linear local cost functions, in presence of linear local…
Unconstrained binary integer programming (UBIP) poses significant computational challenges due to its discrete nature. We introduce a novel reformulation approach using a piecewise cubic function that transforms binary constraints into…