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Imprecise computations provide an avenue for scheduling algorithms developed for energy-constrained computing devices by trading off output quality with the utilization of system resources. This work proposes a method for scheduling task…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Amirhossein Esmaili , Mahdi Nazemi , Massoud Pedram

Large data and computing centers consume a significant share of the world's energy consumption. A prominent subset of the workloads in such centers are workflows with interdependent tasks, usually represented as directed acyclic graphs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Dominik Schweisgut , Anne Benoit , Yves Robert , Henning Meyerhenke

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

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

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 uniform parallel machines scheduling problem in the context of optimistic bilevel optimization, where two speed options are considered. In this scenario, the leader aims to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Quentin Schau , Olivier Ploton , Vincent T'kindt , Han Hoogeveen , Federico Della Croce , Jippe Hoogeveen

Generalizing many well-known and natural scheduling problems, scheduling with job-specific cost functions has gained a lot of attention recently. In this setting, each job incurs a cost depending on its completion time, given by a private…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-07 Wiebke Höhn , Julián Mestre , Andreas Wiese

We study the scheduling problem of makespan minimization while taking machine conflicts into account. Machine conflicts arise in various settings, e.g., shared resources for pre- and post-processing of tasks or spatial restrictions. In this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Moritz Buchem , Linda Kleist , Daniel Schmidt genannt Waldschmidt

In this paper we study the partitioning approach for multiprocessor real-time scheduling. This approach seems to be the easiest since, once the partitioning of the task set has been done, the problem reduces to well understood uniprocessor…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2011-02-03 Irina Lupu , Pierre Courbin , Laurent George , Joël Goossens

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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

Given n jobs with release dates, deadlines and processing times we consider the problem of scheduling them on m parallel machines so as to minimize the total energy consumed. Machines can enter a sleep state and they consume no energy in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Antonios Antoniadis , Naveen Garg , Gunjan Kumar , Nikhil Kumar

We consider the problem of online dynamic power management that provides hard real-time guarantees. In this problem, each of the given jobs is associated with an arrival time, a deadline, and an execution time, and the objective is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Jian-Jia Chen , Mong-Jen Kao , D. T. Lee , Ignaz Rutter , Dorothea Wagner

We consider scheduling problems over scenarios where the goal is to find a single assignment of the jobs to the machines which performs well over all possible scenarios. Each scenario is a subset of jobs that must be executed in that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Esteban Feuerstein , Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela , Frans Schalekamp , Rene Sitters , Suzanne van der Ster , Leen Stougie , Anke van Zuylen

In this paper, we proposed an effective approach for scheduling of multiprocessor unit time tasks with chain precedence on to large multiprocessor system. The proposed longest chain maximum processor scheduling algorithm is proved to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-14 T. K. Agrawal , R. Sharma , M. Ghose , A. Sahu

We consider a natural extension of online makespan scheduling on identical parallel machines by introducing scenarios. A scenario is a subset of jobs, and the task of our problem is to find a global assignment of the jobs to machines so…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ekin Ergen

When integrating hard, soft and non-real-time tasks in general purpose operating systems, it is necessary to provide temporal isolation so that the timing properties of one task do not depend on the behaviour of the others. However, strict…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Luca Abeni , Giuseppe Lipari , Andrea Parri , Youcheng Sun

We consider a natural generalization of classical scheduling problems in which using a time unit for processing a job causes some time-dependent cost which must be paid in addition to the standard scheduling cost. We study the scheduling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Lin Chen , Nicole Megow , Roman Rischke , Leen Stougie , José Verschae

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 improve complexity bounds for energy-efficient speed scheduling problems for both the single processor and multi-processor cases. Energy conservation has become a major concern, so revisiting traditional scheduling problems to take into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Zhentao Li , Claire Mathieu , Ioannis Millis

This work introduces a natural variant of the online machine scheduling problem on unrelated machines, which we refer to as the favorite machine model. In this model, each job has a minimum processing time on a certain set of machines,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Cong Chen , Paolo Penna , Yinfeng Xu