Title
Three, four, five, six, or the complexity of scheduling with communication delays
Abstract
A set of unit-time tasks has to be processed on identical parallel processors subject to precedence constraints and unit-time communication delays; does there exist a schedule of length at most d? The problem has two variants, depending on whether the number of processors is restrictively small or not. For the first variant the question can be answered in polynomial time for d = 3 and is NP-complete for d = 4. The second variant is solvable in polynomial time for d = 5 and NP-complete for d = 6. As a consequence, neither of the corresponding optimization problems has a polynomial approximation scheme, unless P = NP.
Year
DOI
Venue
1994
10.1016/0167-6377(94)90024-8
Oper. Res. Lett.
Keywords
Field
DocType
unit-time task,unit-time communication delay,corresponding optimization problem,complexity,communication delays,polynomial approximation scheme,identical parallel processor,polynomial time,makespan,approximation,precedence constraints,identical parallel processors
Mathematical optimization,Job shop scheduling,Polynomial,Scheduling (computing),Parallel computing,Arithmetic,Transmission time,Time complexity,Optimization problem,Mathematics,Computational complexity theory
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
3
Operations Research Letters
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
45
3.80
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
J. A. Hoogeveen152050.29
J. K. Lenstra21689329.39
Bart Veltman319416.86