Minimizing Schedule Length or Makespan Criteria for Parallel Processor

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  • Ali Derbala
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s : Our motivation is to answer some open problems in parallel scheduling problems. We consider problems that are NP-hard. A standard way of dealing with NP-hard problems is not to search for an optimal solution, but to go for near-optimal solutions in a polynomial time approximation algorithm. In this paper, we summarize what is known on minimizing schedule length or makespan criteria for parallel processor scheduling problems. From a recent paper of Schuurman and Woeginger (1999), we relate four open problems on such algorithms.

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تاریخ انتشار 2008