Power of Preemption on Uniform Parallel Machines

Authors Alan J. Soper, Vitaly A. Strusevich



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Alan J. Soper
Vitaly A. Strusevich

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Alan J. Soper and Vitaly A. Strusevich. Power of Preemption on Uniform Parallel Machines. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2014). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 28, pp. 392-402, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2014)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2014.392

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For a scheduling problem on parallel machines, the power of preemption is defined as the ratio of the makespan of an optimal non-preemptive schedule over the makespan of an optimal preemptive schedule. For m uniform parallel machines, we give the necessary and sufficient conditions under which the global bound of 2-1/m is tight. If the makespan of the optimal preemptive schedule is defined by the ratio of the total processing times of r < m longest jobs over the total speed of r fastest machines, we show that the tight bound on the power of preemption is 2-1/min{r,m-r}.
Keywords
  • Machine Scheduling
  • Uniform Parallel Machines
  • Power of Preemption

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