TY - GEN
T1 - Quick Minimization of Tardy Processing Time on a Single Machine
AU - Schieber, Baruch
AU - Sitaraman, Pranav
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - We consider the problem of minimizing the total processing time of tardy jobs on a single machine. This is a classical scheduling problem, first considered by [Lawler and Moore 1969], that also generalizes the Subset Sum problem. Recently, it was shown that this problem can be solved efficiently by computing (max, min ) -skewed-convolutions. The running time of the resulting algorithm is the same, up to logarithmic factors, as the time it takes to compute a (max, min ) -skewed-convolution of two vectors of integers whose sum is O(P), where P is the sum of the jobs’ processing times. We further improve the running time of the minimum tardy processing time computation by introducing a job “bundling” technique and achieve a O~(P2-1/α) running time, where O~(Pα) is the running time of a (max, min ) -skewed-convolution of vectors of size P. This results in a O~(P7/5) time algorithm for tardy processing time minimization, an improvement over the previously known O~(P5/3) time algorithm.
AB - We consider the problem of minimizing the total processing time of tardy jobs on a single machine. This is a classical scheduling problem, first considered by [Lawler and Moore 1969], that also generalizes the Subset Sum problem. Recently, it was shown that this problem can be solved efficiently by computing (max, min ) -skewed-convolutions. The running time of the resulting algorithm is the same, up to logarithmic factors, as the time it takes to compute a (max, min ) -skewed-convolution of two vectors of integers whose sum is O(P), where P is the sum of the jobs’ processing times. We further improve the running time of the minimum tardy processing time computation by introducing a job “bundling” technique and achieve a O~(P2-1/α) running time, where O~(Pα) is the running time of a (max, min ) -skewed-convolution of vectors of size P. This results in a O~(P7/5) time algorithm for tardy processing time minimization, an improvement over the previously known O~(P5/3) time algorithm.
KW - convolution
KW - scheduling
KW - tardy processing time
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-38906-1_42
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-38906-1_42
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85172733877
SN - 9783031389054
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 637
EP - 643
BT - Algorithms and Data Structures - 18th International Symposium, WADS 2023, Proceedings
A2 - Morin, Pat
A2 - Suri, Subhash
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 18th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures, WADS 2023
Y2 - 31 July 2023 through 2 August 2023
ER -