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DISOPT
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
On the job rotation problem
The job rotation problem (JRP) is the following: Given an n × n matrix A over R ∪ {−∞} and k ≤ n, find a k × k principal submatrix of A whose optimal assignment problem...
Peter Butkovic, Seth Lewis
SWAT
2004
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
The Optimal Online Algorithms for Minimizing Maximum Lateness
It is well known that the Earliest-Deadline-First (EDF) and the Least-Laxity-First (LLF) algorithms are optimal algorithms for the problem of preemptively scheduling jobs that arr...
Patchrawat Uthaisombut
AAAI
2012
11 years 11 months ago
Online Task Assignment in Crowdsourcing Markets
We explore the problem of assigning heterogeneous tasks to workers with different, unknown skill sets in crowdsourcing markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk. We first formalize ...
Chien-Ju Ho, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
The Power of Reordering for Online Minimum Makespan Scheduling
In the classic minimum makespan scheduling problem, we are given an input sequence of jobs with processing times. A scheduling algorithm has to assign the jobs to m parallel machi...
Matthias Englert, Deniz Özmen, Matthias Weste...
CORR
2006
Springer
90views Education» more  CORR 2006»
13 years 8 months ago
Path-independent load balancing with unreliable machines
We consider algorithms for load balancing on unreliable machines. The objective is to optimize the two criteria of minimizing the makespan and minimizing job reassignments in resp...
James Aspnes, Yang Richard Yang, Yitong Yin