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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.70
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-90740
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2018/9074/
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Gupta, Anupam ; Kumar, Amit ; Li, Jason

Non-Preemptive Flow-Time Minimization via Rejections

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Abstract

We consider the online problem of minimizing weighted flow-time on unrelated machines. Although much is known about this problem in the resource-augmentation setting, these results assume that jobs can be preempted. We give the first constant-competitive algorithm for the non-preemptive setting in the rejection model. In this rejection model, we are allowed to reject an epsilon-fraction of the total weight of jobs, and compare the resulting flow-time to that of the offline optimum which is required to schedule all jobs. This is arguably the weakest assumption in which such a result is known for weighted flow-time on unrelated machines. While our algorithms are simple, we need a delicate argument to bound the flow-time. Indeed, we use the dual-fitting framework, with considerable more machinery to certify that the cost of our algorithm is within a constant of the optimum while only a small fraction of the jobs are rejected.

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@InProceedings{gupta_et_al:LIPIcs:2018:9074,
  author =	{Anupam Gupta and Amit Kumar and Jason Li},
  title =	{{Non-Preemptive Flow-Time Minimization via Rejections}},
  booktitle =	{45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and  Programming (ICALP 2018)},
  pages =	{70:1--70:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-076-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{107},
  editor =	{Ioannis Chatzigiannakis and Christos Kaklamanis and D{\'a}niel Marx and Donald Sannella},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/9074},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-90740},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.70},
  annote =	{Keywords: Scheduling, Rejection, Unrelated Machines, Non-Preemptive}
}

Keywords: Scheduling, Rejection, Unrelated Machines, Non-Preemptive
Collection: 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018)
Issue Date: 2018
Date of publication: 04.07.2018

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