Scheduling multi-task jobs with extra utility in data centers

Abstract This paper investigates the problem of maximizing utility for job scheduling where each job consists of multiple tasks, each task has utility and each job also has extra utility if all tasks of that job are completed. We provide a 2-approximation algorithm for the single-machine case and a...

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Main Authors: Xiaolin Fang, Junzhou Luo, Hong Gao, Weiwei Wu, Yingshu Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-11-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13638-017-0986-0