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Resource scheduling with supply constraint and linear cost

  • Qiang Zhang*
  • , Weiwei Wu
  • , Minming Li
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • City University of Hong Kong
  • Nanyang Technological University

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Abstract

We consider the following resource scheduling problem to minimize the total weighted completion time. There are m resources available at each time unit, and n jobs, each requiring an arbitrary number s i of resources. Each resource can only be assigned to one job. The objective is to find a schedule that minimizes ∑ w ic i, where w i is the weight/importance of job J i and c i is the time that job J i receives all resources it requires. We show this problem is NP-hard when m is the input of the problem. We then give a simple greedy algorithm with 2-approximation ratio. Finally, we present a polynomial time algorithm with complexity O(n d+1) to solve this problem when the number of different resources requirements that are not multiples of m is at most d.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCombinatorial Optimization and Applications - 6th International Conference, COCOA 2012, Proceedings
Pages212-222
Number of pages11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event6th Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2012 - Banff, AB, Canada
Duration: 5 Aug 20129 Aug 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7402 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference6th Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2012
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityBanff, AB
Period5/08/129/08/12

Keywords

  • Algorithms
  • Machine scheduling
  • Parallel tasks
  • Supply allocation

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