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Online Non-Preemptive Scheduling to Minimize Maximum Weighted Flow-Time on Related Machines

Authors Giorgio Lucarelli, Benjamin Moseley, Nguyen Kim Thang, Abhinav Srivastav, Denis Trystram

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  • Theory of computation → Scheduling algorithms
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  • Online Algorithms
  • Scheduling
  • Resource Augmentation

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Abstract

We consider the problem of scheduling jobs to minimize the maximum weighted flow-time on a set of related machines. When jobs can be preempted this problem is well-understood; for example, there exists a constant competitive algorithm using speed augmentation. When jobs must be scheduled non-preemptively, only hardness results are known. In this paper, we present the first online guarantees for the non-preemptive variant. We present the first constant competitive algorithm for minimizing the maximum weighted flow-time on related machines by relaxing the problem and assuming that the online algorithm can reject a small fraction of the total weight of jobs. This is essentially the best result possible given the strong lower bounds on the non-preemptive problem without rejection.

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Giorgio Lucarelli, Benjamin Moseley, Nguyen Kim Thang, Abhinav Srivastav, and Denis Trystram. Online Non-Preemptive Scheduling to Minimize Maximum Weighted Flow-Time on Related Machines. In 39th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 150, pp. 24:1-24:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2019.24

Author Details

Giorgio Lucarelli
  • LCOMS, University of Lorraine, Metz, France
Benjamin Moseley
  • Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Nguyen Kim Thang
  • IBISC, Univ. Paris-Saclay, France
Abhinav Srivastav
  • IBISC, Univ. Paris-Saclay, France
Denis Trystram
  • Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Inria, Grenoble INP, LIG, France

Funding

  • Moseley, Benjamin: Google Research Award and NSF grants CCF-1830711, CCF-1824303, and CCF-1733873
  • Thang, Nguyen Kim: OATA ANR-15-CE40-0015-01
  • Srivastav, Abhinav: OATA ANR-15-CE40-0015-01

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