Temporary tasks assignment resolved

Amitai Armon, Yossi Azar, Leah Epstein, Oded Regev

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Abstract

Among all basic on-line load balancing problems, the only unresolved problem was load balancing of temporary tasks on unrelated machines. This open problem exists for almost a decade, see [Borodin El-Yaniv]. We resolve this problem by providing an unapproximability result. In addition, a newer open question is to identify the dependency of the competitive ratio on the durations of jobs in the case where durations are known. We resolve this problem by characterizing this dependency. Finally, we provide a PTAS for the off-line problem with a fixed number of machines and show a 2 unapproximability for the general case.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 13th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2002
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages116-124
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)089871513X
StatePublished - 2002
Externally publishedYes
Event13th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2002 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: 6 Jan 20028 Jan 2002

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
Volume06-08-January-2002

Conference

Conference13th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2002
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period6/01/028/01/02

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • General Mathematics

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