Sublinear time approximation schemes for makespan minimization on parallel machines
We study sublinear time algorithms for the classical makespan minimization problem of scheduling n jobs on m parallel machines. Under uniform random sampling setting, we consider the problem with constrained processing times, which remains NP-hard. We first consider the problem where the processing...
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| Vydáno v: | Mathematical methods of operations research (Heidelberg, Germany) Ročník 101; číslo 3; s. 507 - 528 |
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| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Berlin/Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
01.06.2025
Springer Nature B.V |
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| ISSN: | 1432-2994, 1432-5217 |
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| Shrnutí: | We study sublinear time algorithms for the classical makespan minimization problem of scheduling
n
jobs on
m
parallel machines. Under uniform random sampling setting, we consider the problem with constrained processing times, which remains NP-hard. We first consider the problem where the processing times of all jobs differ by no more than a constant factor
c
. We develop the first sublinear time approximation scheme for this problem when the number of machines
m
is at most
. We then extend our algorithm to the more general problem where the largest
jobs have processing times that differ by no more than
c
factor for some constant
,
. When
, our algorithm is a randomized
-approximation scheme that runs in sublinear time. We further generalize our algorithms to the scheduling problems with precedence constraints where the precedence graph has a bounded depth
h
. Our work not only provides an algorithmic solution to the studied scheduling problem under big data environment, but also gives a methodological framework for designing sublinear time approximation algorithms for other scheduling problems. |
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| Bibliografie: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 |
| ISSN: | 1432-2994 1432-5217 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00186-025-00898-z |