9 Search Results for "Eisenbrand, Friedrich"


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Efficient Sequential and Parallel Algorithms for Multistage Stochastic Integer Programming Using Proximity

Authors: Jana Cslovjecsek, Friedrich Eisenbrand, Michał Pilipczuk, Moritz Venzin, and Robert Weismantel

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 204, 29th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2021)


Abstract
We consider the problem of solving integer programs of the form min {c^⊺ x : Ax = b, x ∈ ℤ_{⩾ 0}}, where A is a multistage stochastic matrix in the following sense: the primal treedepth of A is bounded by a parameter d, which means that the columns of A can be organized into a rooted forest of depth at most d so that columns not bound by the ancestor/descendant relation do not have non-zero entries in the same row. We give an algorithm that solves this problem in fixed-parameter time f(d,‖A‖_{∞})⋅ nlog^{𝒪(2^d)} n, where f is a computable function and n is the number of rows of A. The algorithm works in the strong model, where the running time only measures unit arithmetic operations on the input numbers and does not depend on their bitlength. This is the first fpt algorithm for multistage stochastic integer programming to achieve almost linear running time in the strong sense. For two-stage stochastic integer programs, our algorithm works in time 2^{((r+s)‖A‖_∞)^{𝒪(r(r+s))}}⋅ nlog^{𝒪(rs)} n, which improves over previous methods both in terms of the polynomial factor and in terms of the dependence on r and s. In fact, for r = 1 the dependence on s is asymptotically almost tight assuming the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Our algorithm can be also parallelized: we give an implementation in the PRAM model that achieves running time f(d,‖A‖_{∞})⋅ log^{𝒪(2^d)} n using n processors. The main conceptual ingredient in our algorithms is a new proximity result for multistage stochastic integer programs. We prove that if we consider an integer program P, say with a constraint matrix A, then for every optimum solution to the linear relaxation of P there exists an optimum (integral) solution to P that lies, in the 𝓁_{∞}-norm, within distance bounded by a function of ‖A‖_{∞} and the primal treedepth of A. On the way to achieve this result, we prove a generalization and considerable improvement of a structural result of Klein for multistage stochastic integer programs. Once the proximity results are established, this allows us to apply a treedepth-based branching strategy guided by an optimum solution to the linear relaxation.

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Jana Cslovjecsek, Friedrich Eisenbrand, Michał Pilipczuk, Moritz Venzin, and Robert Weismantel. Efficient Sequential and Parallel Algorithms for Multistage Stochastic Integer Programming Using Proximity. In 29th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 204, pp. 33:1-33:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{cslovjecsek_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2021.33,
  author =	{Cslovjecsek, Jana and Eisenbrand, Friedrich and Pilipczuk, Micha{\l} and Venzin, Moritz and Weismantel, Robert},
  title =	{{Efficient Sequential and Parallel Algorithms for Multistage Stochastic Integer Programming Using Proximity}},
  booktitle =	{29th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2021)},
  pages =	{33:1--33:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-204-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{204},
  editor =	{Mutzel, Petra and Pagh, Rasmus and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.33},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-146146},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.33},
  annote =	{Keywords: parameterized algorithm, multistage stochastic programming, proximity}
}
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Approximate CVP_p in Time 2^{0.802 n}

Authors: Friedrich Eisenbrand and Moritz Venzin

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 173, 28th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2020)


Abstract
We show that a constant factor approximation of the shortest and closest lattice vector problem w.r.t. any 𝓁_p-norm can be computed in time 2^{(0.802 +ε) n}. This matches the currently fastest constant factor approximation algorithm for the shortest vector problem w.r.t. 𝓁₂. To obtain our result, we combine the latter algorithm w.r.t. 𝓁₂ with geometric insights related to coverings.

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Friedrich Eisenbrand and Moritz Venzin. Approximate CVP_p in Time 2^{0.802 n}. In 28th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 173, pp. 43:1-43:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)


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@InProceedings{eisenbrand_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2020.43,
  author =	{Eisenbrand, Friedrich and Venzin, Moritz},
  title =	{{Approximate CVP\underlinep in Time 2^\{0.802 n\}}},
  booktitle =	{28th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2020)},
  pages =	{43:1--43:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-162-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{173},
  editor =	{Grandoni, Fabrizio and Herman, Grzegorz and Sanders, Peter},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2020.43},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-129097},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2020.43},
  annote =	{Keywords: Shortest and closest vector problem, approximation algorithm, sieving, covering convex bodies}
}
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Tight Complexity Lower Bounds for Integer Linear Programming with Few Constraints

Authors: Dušan Knop, Michał Pilipczuk, and Marcin Wrochna

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 126, 36th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2019)


Abstract
We consider the standard ILP Feasibility problem: given an integer linear program of the form {Ax = b, x >= 0}, where A is an integer matrix with k rows and l columns, x is a vector of l variables, and b is a vector of k integers, we ask whether there exists x in N^l that satisfies Ax = b. Each row of A specifies one linear constraint on x; our goal is to study the complexity of ILP Feasibility when both k, the number of constraints, and |A|_infty, the largest absolute value of an entry in A, are small. Papadimitriou [Christos H. Papadimitriou, 1981] was the first to give a fixed-parameter algorithm for ILP Feasibility under parameterization by the number of constraints that runs in time ((|A |_infty + |b|_infty) * k)^O(k^2). This was very recently improved by Eisenbrand and Weismantel [Friedrich Eisenbrand and Robert Weismantel, 2018], who used the Steinitz lemma to design an algorithm with running time (k |A|_infty)^{O(k)}* |b|_infty^2, which was subsequently improved by Jansen and Rohwedder [Klaus Jansen and Lars Rohwedder, 2019] to O(k |A |_infty)^k* log |b|_infty. We prove that for {0,1}-matrices A, the running time of the algorithm of Eisenbrand and Weismantel is probably optimal: an algorithm with running time 2^{o(k log k)}* (l+|{b}|_infty)^{o(k)} would contradict the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH). This improves previous non-tight lower bounds of Fomin et al. [Fedor V. Fomin et al., 2018]. We then consider integer linear programs that may have many constraints, but they need to be structured in a "shallow" way. Precisely, we consider the parameter {dual treedepth} of the matrix A, denoted td_D(A), which is the treedepth of the graph over the rows of A, where two rows are adjacent if in some column they simultaneously contain a non-zero entry. It was recently shown by Koutecký et al. [Martin Koutecký et al., 2018] that {ILP Feasibility} can be solved in time |A |_infty^{2^O(td_D(A))} * (k+l+log |b|_infty)^O(1). We present a streamlined proof of this fact and prove that, again, this running time is probably optimal: even assuming that all entries of A and {b} are in {-1,0,1}, the existence of an algorithm with running time 2^{2^o(td_D(A))} * (k+l)^O(1) would contradict the ETH.

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Dušan Knop, Michał Pilipczuk, and Marcin Wrochna. Tight Complexity Lower Bounds for Integer Linear Programming with Few Constraints. In 36th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 126, pp. 44:1-44:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)


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@InProceedings{knop_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2019.44,
  author =	{Knop, Du\v{s}an and Pilipczuk, Micha{\l} and Wrochna, Marcin},
  title =	{{Tight Complexity Lower Bounds for Integer Linear Programming with Few Constraints}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2019)},
  pages =	{44:1--44:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-100-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{126},
  editor =	{Niedermeier, Rolf and Paul, Christophe},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2019.44},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-102831},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2019.44},
  annote =	{Keywords: integer linear programming, fixed-parameter tractability, ETH}
}
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Diversity Maximization in Doubling Metrics

Authors: Alfonso Cevallos, Friedrich Eisenbrand, and Sarah Morell

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 123, 29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2018)


Abstract
Diversity maximization is an important geometric optimization problem with many applications in recommender systems, machine learning or search engines among others. A typical diversification problem is as follows: Given a finite metric space (X,d) and a parameter k in N, find a subset of k elements of X that has maximum diversity. There are many functions that measure diversity. One of the most popular measures, called remote-clique, is the sum of the pairwise distances of the chosen elements. In this paper, we present novel results on three widely used diversity measures: Remote-clique, remote-star and remote-bipartition. Our main result are polynomial time approximation schemes for these three diversification problems under the assumption that the metric space is doubling. This setting has been discussed in the recent literature. The existence of such a PTAS however was left open. Our results also hold in the setting where the distances are raised to a fixed power q >= 1, giving rise to more variants of diversity functions, similar in spirit to the variations of clustering problems depending on the power applied to the pairwise distances. Finally, we provide a proof of NP-hardness for remote-clique with squared distances in doubling metric spaces.

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Alfonso Cevallos, Friedrich Eisenbrand, and Sarah Morell. Diversity Maximization in Doubling Metrics. In 29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 123, pp. 33:1-33:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)


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@InProceedings{cevallos_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.33,
  author =	{Cevallos, Alfonso and Eisenbrand, Friedrich and Morell, Sarah},
  title =	{{Diversity Maximization in Doubling Metrics}},
  booktitle =	{29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2018)},
  pages =	{33:1--33:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-094-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{123},
  editor =	{Hsu, Wen-Lian and Lee, Der-Tsai and Liao, Chung-Shou},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.33},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-99818},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2018.33},
  annote =	{Keywords: Remote-clique, remote-star, remote-bipartition, doubling dimension, grid rounding, epsilon-nets, polynomial time approximation scheme, facility location, information retrieval}
}
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Faster Algorithms for Integer Programs with Block Structure

Authors: Friedrich Eisenbrand, Christoph Hunkenschröder, and Kim-Manuel Klein

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 107, 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018)


Abstract
We consider integer programming problems max {c^Tx : A x = b, l <= x <= u, x in Z^{nt}} where A has a (recursive) block-structure generalizing n-fold integer programs which recently received considerable attention in the literature. An n-fold IP is an integer program where A consists of n repetitions of submatrices A in Z^{r × t} on the top horizontal part and n repetitions of a matrix B in Z^{s × t} on the diagonal below the top part. Instead of allowing only two types of block matrices, one for the horizontal line and one for the diagonal, we generalize the n-fold setting to allow for arbitrary matrices in every block. We show that such an integer program can be solved in time n^2t^2 phi x (r s delta)^{O(rs^2+ sr^2)} (ignoring logarithmic factors). Here delta is an upper bound on the largest absolute value of an entry of A and phi is the largest binary encoding length of a coefficient of c. This improves upon the previously best algorithm of Hemmecke, Onn and Romanchuk that runs in time n^3t^3 phi x delta^{O(st(r+t))}. In particular, our algorithm is not exponential in the number t of columns of A and B. Our algorithm is based on a new upper bound on the l_1-norm of an element of the Graver basis of an integer matrix and on a proximity bound between the LP and IP optimal solutions tailored for IPs with block structure. These new bounds rely on the Steinitz Lemma. Furthermore, we extend our techniques to the recently introduced tree-fold IPs, where we again present a more efficient algorithm in a generalized setting.

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Friedrich Eisenbrand, Christoph Hunkenschröder, and Kim-Manuel Klein. Faster Algorithms for Integer Programs with Block Structure. In 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 107, pp. 49:1-49:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)


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@InProceedings{eisenbrand_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.49,
  author =	{Eisenbrand, Friedrich and Hunkenschr\"{o}der, Christoph and Klein, Kim-Manuel},
  title =	{{Faster Algorithms for Integer Programs with Block Structure}},
  booktitle =	{45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018)},
  pages =	{49:1--49:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-076-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{107},
  editor =	{Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Kaklamanis, Christos and Marx, D\'{a}niel and Sannella, Donald},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.49},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-90537},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.49},
  annote =	{Keywords: n-fold, Tree-fold, Integer Programming}
}
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Max-Sum Diversity Via Convex Programming

Authors: Alfonso Cevallos, Friedrich Eisenbrand, and Rico Zenklusen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 51, 32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016)


Abstract
Diversity maximization is an important concept in information retrieval, computational geometry and operations research. Usually, it is a variant of the following problem: Given a ground set, constraints, and a function f that measures diversity of a subset, the task is to select a feasible subset S such that f(S) is maximized. The sum-dispersion function f(S) which is the sum of the pairwise distances in S, is in this context a prominent diversification measure. The corresponding diversity maximization is the "max-sum" or "sum-sum" diversification. Many recent results deal with the design of constant-factor approximation algorithms of diversification problems involving sum-dispersion function under a matroid constraint. In this paper, we present a PTAS for the max-sum diversity problem under a matroid constraint for distances d(.,.) of negative type. Distances of negative type are, for example, metric distances stemming from the l_2 and l_1 norms, as well as the cosine or spherical, or Jaccard distance which are popular similarity metrics in web and image search. Our algorithm is based on techniques developed in geometric algorithms like metric embeddings and convex optimization. We show that one can compute a fractional solution of the usually non-convex relaxation of the problem which yields an upper bound on the optimum integer solution. Starting from this fractional solution, we employ a deterministic rounding approach which only incurs a small loss in terms of objective, thus leading to a PTAS. This technique can be applied to other previously studied variants of the max-sum dispersion function, including combinations of diversity with linear-score maximization, improving over the previous constant-factor approximation algorithms.

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Alfonso Cevallos, Friedrich Eisenbrand, and Rico Zenklusen. Max-Sum Diversity Via Convex Programming. In 32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 51, pp. 26:1-26:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{cevallos_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.26,
  author =	{Cevallos, Alfonso and Eisenbrand, Friedrich and Zenklusen, Rico},
  title =	{{Max-Sum Diversity Via Convex Programming}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016)},
  pages =	{26:1--26:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-009-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{51},
  editor =	{Fekete, S\'{a}ndor and Lubiw, Anna},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.26},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-59186},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.26},
  annote =	{Keywords: Geometric Dispersion, Embeddings, Approximation Algorithms, Convex Programming, Matroids}
}
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Diameter of Polyhedra: Limits of Abstraction

Authors: Friedrich Eisenbrand, Nicolai Hähnle, Alexander Razborov, and Thomas Rothvoß

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 10211, Flexible Network Design (2010)


Abstract
We investigate the diameter of a natural abstraction of the $1$-skeleton of polyhedra. Even if this abstraction is more general than other abstractions previously studied in the literature, known upper bounds on the diameter of polyhedra continue to hold here. On the other hand, we show that this abstraction has its limits by providing an almost quadratic lower bound.

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Friedrich Eisenbrand, Nicolai Hähnle, Alexander Razborov, and Thomas Rothvoß. Diameter of Polyhedra: Limits of Abstraction. In Flexible Network Design. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 10211, pp. 1-5, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{eisenbrand_et_al:DagSemProc.10211.2,
  author =	{Eisenbrand, Friedrich and H\"{a}hnle, Nicolai and Razborov, Alexander and Rothvo{\ss}, Thomas},
  title =	{{Diameter of Polyhedra: Limits of Abstraction}},
  booktitle =	{Flexible Network Design},
  pages =	{1--5},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{10211},
  editor =	{Anupam Gupta and Stefano Leonardi and Berthold V\"{o}cking and Roger Wattenhofer},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.10211.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27247},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.10211.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Polyhedra, Graphs}
}
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Recent Hardness Results for Periodic Uni-processor Scheduling

Authors: Friedrich Eisenbrand and Thomas Rothvoss

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 10071, Scheduling (2010)


Abstract
Consider a set of $n$ periodic tasks $ au_1,ldots, au_n$ where $ au_i$ is described by an execution time $c_i$, a (relative) deadline $d_i$ and a period $p_i$. We assume that jobs are released synchronously (i.e. at each multiple of $p_i$) and consider pre-emptive, uni-processor schedules. We show that computing the response time of a task $ au_n$ in a Rate-monotonic schedule i.e. computing [ minleft{ r geq mid c_n + sum_{i=1}^{n-1} leftlceil frac{r}{p_i} ight ceil c_i leq r ight} ] is (weakly) $mathbf{NP}$-hard (where $ au_n$ has the lowest priority and the deadlines are implicit, i.e. $d_i = p_i$). Furthermore we obtain that verifying EDF-schedulability, i.e. [ forall Q geq 0: sum_{i=1}^n left( leftlfloor frac{Q-d_i}{p_i} ight floor +1 ight)cdot c_i leq Q ] for constrained-deadline tasks ($d_i leq p_i$) is weakly $mathbf{coNP}$-hard.

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Friedrich Eisenbrand and Thomas Rothvoss. Recent Hardness Results for Periodic Uni-processor Scheduling. In Scheduling. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 10071, pp. 1-7, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{eisenbrand_et_al:DagSemProc.10071.10,
  author =	{Eisenbrand, Friedrich and Rothvoss, Thomas},
  title =	{{Recent Hardness Results for Periodic Uni-processor Scheduling}},
  booktitle =	{Scheduling},
  pages =	{1--7},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{10071},
  editor =	{Susanne Albers and Sanjoy K. Baruah and Rolf H. M\"{o}hring and Kirk Pruhs},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.10071.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-25458},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.10071.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: Hardness, periodic scheduling, uni-processor scheduling}
}
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Scheduling periodic tasks in a hard real-time environment

Authors: Friedrich Eisenbrand, Nicolai Hähnle, Martin Niemeier, Martin Skutella, Jose Verschae, and Andreas Wiese

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 10071, Scheduling (2010)


Abstract
We consider a real-time scheduling problem that occurs in the design of software-based aircraft control. The goal is to distribute tasks $ au_i=(c_i,p_i)$ on a minimum number of identical machines and to compute offsets $a_i$ for the tasks such that no collision occurs. A task $ au_i$ releases a job of running time $c_i$ at each time $a_i + kcdot p_i, , k in mathbb{N}_0$ and a collision occurs if two jobs are simultaneously active on the same machine. We shed some light on the complexity and approximability landscape of this problem. Although the problem cannot be approximated within a factor of $n^{1-varepsilon}$ for any $varepsilon>0$, an interesting restriction is much more tractable: If the periods are dividing (for each $i,j$ one has $p_i | p_j$ or $p_j | p_i$), the problem allows for a better structured representation of solutions, which leads to a 2-approximation. This result is tight, even asymptotically.

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Friedrich Eisenbrand, Nicolai Hähnle, Martin Niemeier, Martin Skutella, Jose Verschae, and Andreas Wiese. Scheduling periodic tasks in a hard real-time environment. In Scheduling. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 10071, pp. 1-3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{eisenbrand_et_al:DagSemProc.10071.13,
  author =	{Eisenbrand, Friedrich and H\"{a}hnle, Nicolai and Niemeier, Martin and Skutella, Martin and Verschae, Jose and Wiese, Andreas},
  title =	{{Scheduling periodic tasks in a hard real-time environment}},
  booktitle =	{Scheduling},
  pages =	{1--3},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{10071},
  editor =	{Susanne Albers and Sanjoy K. Baruah and Rolf H. M\"{o}hring and Kirk Pruhs},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.10071.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-25348},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.10071.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: Real-Time Scheduling, Periodic scheduling problem, Periodic maintenance problem, Approximation hardness, Approximation algorithm}
}
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