A Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme for General Multiprocessor Job Scheduling Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Recently, there have been considerable interests in the multiprocessor job scheduling problem, in which a job can be processed in parallel on one of several alternative subsets of processors. In this paper, a polynomial time approximation scheme is presented for the problem in which the number of processors in the system is a fixed constant. This result is the best possible because of the strong NP-hardness of the problem and is a significant improvement over the past results: the best previous result was an approximation algorithm of ratio 7/6 + for 3-processor systems based on Goemans's algorithm for a restricted version of the problem. 2001 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

published proceedings

  • SIAM Journal on Computing

author list (cited authors)

  • Chen, J., & Miranda, A.

citation count

  • 30

complete list of authors

  • Chen, Jianer||Miranda, Antonio

publication date

  • January 2001