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AOR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
The problem of on-line bin packing restricted to instances with only two item sizes (known in advance) has a well-known lower bound of 4/3 for its asymptotic competitive ratio. We...
ICALP
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2004
Springer
We consider the following scheduling problem. The input is a set of jobs with equal processing times, where each job is specified by its release time and deadline. The goal is to ...
IPL
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
The Job Scheduling with Cancellation problem is a variation of classical scheduling problems in which jobs can be cancelled while waiting for execution. In this paper we prove a t...
WAOA
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2007
Springer
In the incremental version of the well-known k-median problem the objective is to compute an incremental sequence of facility sets F1 ⊆ F2 ⊆ .... ⊆ Fn, where each Fk contain...
ESA
2009
Springer
14 years 11 days ago
2009
Springer
We consider online preemptive scheduling of jobs, arriving one by one, on m identical parallel machines. A buffer of a fixed size K > 0, which assists in partial reordering of...