We consider the makespan minimization coupled-tasks problem in presence of compatibility constraints with a specified topology. In particular, we focus on stretched coupled-tasks, i.e. coupled-tasks having the same su...
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We consider the makespan minimization coupled-tasks problem in presence of compatibility constraints with a specified topology. In particular, we focus on stretched coupled-tasks, i.e. coupled-tasks having the same sub-tasks execution time and idle time duration. We study several problems in framework of classic complexity and approximation for which the compatibility graph is bipartite (star, chain, ...). In such a context, we design some efficient polynomial-time approximation algorithms for an intractable scheduling problem according to some parameters.
We consider the MAX n/2-DIRECTED-BISECTION problem, i.e., partitioning the vertices of a directed graph into two blocks of equal cardinality so as to maximize the total weight of the edges in the directed cut. A polyn...
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We consider the MAX n/2-DIRECTED-BISECTION problem, i.e., partitioning the vertices of a directed graph into two blocks of equal cardinality so as to maximize the total weight of the edges in the directed cut. A polynomialapproximationalgorithm using a semidefinite-relaxation with 0.6458 performance guarantee is presented for the problem. The previous best-known results for approximating this problem are 0.5 using a linear programming relaxation, 0.6440 using a semidefinite relaxation. We also consider the MAX n/2-DENSE-SUBGRAPH problem, i.e., determine a block of half the number of vertices from a weighted undirected graph such that the sum of the edge weights, within the subgraph induced by the block, is maximized. We present an 0.6236 approximation of the problem as opposed to 0.6221 of Halperin and Zwick.
We consider the problem of scheduling n independent jobs on m parallel machines, where the machines differ in their functionality but not in their processing speeds. Each job has a restricted set of machines to which ...
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We consider the problem of scheduling n independent jobs on m parallel machines, where the machines differ in their functionality but not in their processing speeds. Each job has a restricted set of machines to which it can be assigned, called its processing set. Preemption is not allowed. Our goal is to minimize the makespan of the schedule. We study two variants of this problem: (1) the case of tree-hierarchical processing set and (2) the case of nested processing set. We first give a fast algorithm for the case of tree-hierarchical processing set with a worst-case bound of 4/3, which is better than the best known algorithm whose worst-case bound is 2. We then give a more complicated algorithm for the case of nested processing set with a worst-case bound of 5/3, which is better than the best known algorithm whose worst-case bound is 7/4. In both cases, we will give examples achieving the worst-case bounds. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
We explore in this paper some complexity issues inspired by the contig scaffolding problem in bioinformatics. We focus on the following problem: given an undirected graph with no loop, and a perfect matching on this g...
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We explore in this paper some complexity issues inspired by the contig scaffolding problem in bioinformatics. We focus on the following problem: given an undirected graph with no loop, and a perfect matching on this graph, find a set of cycles and paths covering every vertex of the graph, with edges alternatively in the matching and outside the matching, and satisfying a given constraint on the numbers of cycles and paths. We show that this problem is NP-complete, even in planar bipartite graphs. Moreover, we show that there is no subexponential-timealgorithm for several related problems unless the Exponential-time Hypothesis fails. Lastly, we also design two polynomial-time approximation algorithms for complete graphs. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
We study a generalized version of the load balancing problem on unrelated machines with cost constraints: Given a set of m machines (of certain types) and a set of n jobs, each job j processed on machine i requires p(...
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We study a generalized version of the load balancing problem on unrelated machines with cost constraints: Given a set of m machines (of certain types) and a set of n jobs, each job j processed on machine i requires p(i,j) time units and incurs a cost c(i,) j, and the goal is to find a schedule of jobs to machines, which is defined as an ordered partition of n jobs into m disjoint subsets, in such a way that some objective function of the vector of the completion times of the machines is optimized, subject to the constraint that the total costs by the schedule must be within a given budget B. Motivated by recent results from the literature, our focus is on the case when the number of machine types is a fixed constant and we develop a bi-criteria approximation scheme for the studied problem. Our result generalizes several known results for certain special cases, such as the case with identical machines, or the case with a constant number of machines with cost constraints. Building on the elegant technique recently proposed by Jansen and Maack [1], we construct a more general approach that can be used to derive approximation schemes for a wider class of load balancing problems with linear constraints. (c) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Ye, YYUniv Iowa
Dept Management Sci Henry B Tippie Coll Business Iowa City IA 52242 USA
We present a .699-approximationalgorithm fur Max-Bisection, i.e., partitioning the nodes of a weighted graph into two blocks of equal cardinality so as to maximize the weights of crossing edges. This is an improved r...
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We present a .699-approximationalgorithm fur Max-Bisection, i.e., partitioning the nodes of a weighted graph into two blocks of equal cardinality so as to maximize the weights of crossing edges. This is an improved result from the .651-approximationalgorithm of Frieze and Jerrum and the semidefinite programming relaxation of Goemans and Williamson.
We consider the problem of approximating the global minimum of a general quadratic program (QP) with n variables subject to m ellipsoidal constraints. For m = 1, we rigorously show that an c-minimizer, where error eps...
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We consider the problem of approximating the global minimum of a general quadratic program (QP) with n variables subject to m ellipsoidal constraints. For m = 1, we rigorously show that an c-minimizer, where error epsilon is an element of (0, 1), can be obtained in polynomialtime, meaning that the number of arithmetic operations is a polynomial in n, m, and log(1/epsilon). For m greater than or equal to 2, we present a polynomial-time (1 - 1/m(2))-approximationalgorithm as well as a semidefinite programming relaxation for this problem. In addition, we present approximationalgorithms for solving QP under the box constraints and the assignment polytope constraints.
Abstract Given a directed graph G and an edge weight function w : A(G) M R^+ the maximum directed cut problem (MAX DICUT) is that of finding a directed cut '(S) with maximum total weight. We consider a version of ...
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Abstract Given a directed graph G and an edge weight function w : A(G) M R^+ the maximum directed cut problem (MAX DICUT) is that of finding a directed cut '(S) with maximum total weight. We consider a version of MAX DICUT -- MAX DICUT with given sizes of parts or MAX DICUT WITH GSP -- whose instance is that of MAX DICUT plus a positive integer k, and it is required to find a directed cut '(S) having maximum weight over all cuts '(S) with |S|=k. We present an approximationalgorithm for this problem which is based on semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation. The algorithm achieves the presently best performance guarantee for a range of k.
Several polynomialtimeapproximationalgorithms for some NPNPNP-complete routing problems are presented, and the worst-case ratios of the cost of the obtained route to that of an optimal are determined. A mixed-strat...
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Several polynomialtimeapproximationalgorithms for some NP-complete routing problems are presented, and the worst-case ratios of the cost of the obtained route to that of an optimal are determined. A mixed-strategy heuristic with a bound of 9/5 is presented for the stacker-crane problem (a modified traveling salesman problem). A tour-splitting heuristic is given for k-person variants of the traveling salesman problem, the Chinese postman problem, and the stacker-crane pr
The data association problem appears in many applications and is considered as the most challenging problem in intelligent systems. In this paper, we consider the Bayesian formulation of data association problems and ...
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(纸本)9781457705137
The data association problem appears in many applications and is considered as the most challenging problem in intelligent systems. In this paper, we consider the Bayesian formulation of data association problems and present a deterministic polynomial-time approximation algorithm with guaranteed error bounds using correlation decay from statistical physics. We then show that the proposed algorithm naturally partitions a complex problem into a set of local problems and develop a distributed version of the algorithm. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated in simulation.
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