Competitive Online Scheduling with Level of Service

نویسندگان

  • Ee-Chien Chang
  • Chee-Keng Yap
چکیده

Motivated by an application in thinwire visualization, we study an abstract on-line scheduling problem where the size of each requested service can be scaled down by the scheduler. We give two schedulers FirstFit and EndFit based on two simple heuristics, and generalize them into a class of greedy schedulers. We show that both FirstFit and EndFit are 2-competitive, and any greedy scheduler is 3-competitive. These bounds are shown to be tight.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Scheduling

دوره 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2001