Title
Common-Deadline Lazy Bureaucrat Scheduling Problems
Abstract
The lazy bureaucrat scheduling is a new class of scheduling problems that was introduced in [1]. In these problems, there is one employee (or more) who should perform the assigned jobs. The objective of the employee is to minimize the amount of work he performs and to be as inefficient as possible. He is subject to a constraint, however, that he should be busy when there is some work to do. In this paper, we focus on the cases of this problem where all jobs have the same common deadline. We show that with this constraint, the problem is still NP-hard, and prove some hardness results. We then present a tight 2-approximation algorithm for this problem under one of the defined objective functions. Moreover, we prove that this problem is weakly NP-hard under all objective functions, and present a pseudo-polynomial time algorithm for its general case.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1007/978-3-540-45078-8_6
ALGORITHMS AND DATA STRUCTURES, PROCEEDINGS
Keywords
Field
DocType
scheduling problems,approximation algorithms,dynamic programming,NP-hardness
Approximation algorithm,Dynamic programming,Mathematical optimization,Combinatorics,Scheduling (computing),Computer science,Distributed computing,Polynomial method
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2748
0302-9743
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.56
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Behdad Esfahbod160.56
Mohammad Ghodsi233049.27
Ali Sharifi360.56