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In online scheduling problems, we want to assign jobs to machines while optimizing some given objective function. In the class we study in this paper, we are given a number \(m\) of machines and two jobs that both want to use each of the given machines exactly once in some predefined order. Each job consists of \(m\) tasks and each task needs to be processed on one particular machine. The objective is to assign the tasks to the machines while minimizing the makespan, i.e., the processing time of the job that takes longer. In our model, the tasks arrive in consecutive time steps and an algorithm must assign a task to a machine without having full knowledge of the order in which the remaining tasks arrive. We study the advice complexity of this problem, which is a tool to measure the amount of information necessary to achieve a certain output quality. A great deal of research has been carried out in this field; however, this paper studies the problem in a new setting. In this setting, the oracle does not know the exact future anymore but only all possible future scenarios and their probabilities. This way, the additional information becomes more realistic. We prove that the problem is more difficult with this oracle than before. Moreover, in job shop scheduling, we provide a lower bound of \(1+1/(6\sqrt{m})\) on the competitive ratio of any online algorithm with advice and prove an upper bound of \(1+1/\sqrt{m}\) on the competitive ratio of an algorithm from Hromkovič et al. [8].
This work was partially supported by the SNF grant 200021-141089.
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Wehner, D. (2014). A New Concept in Advice Complexity of Job Shop Scheduling. In: Hliněný, P., et al. Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science. MEMICS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8934. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14896-0_13
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