On the hardness of approximating the UET-UCT scheduling problem with hierarchical communications

Evripidis Bampis; R. Giroudeau; J.-C. König

RAIRO - Operations Research (2010)

  • Volume: 36, Issue: 1, page 21-36
  • ISSN: 0399-0559

Abstract

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We consider the unit execution time unit communication time (UET-UCT) scheduling model with hierarchical communica tions [CITE], and we study the impact of the hierarchical communications hypothesis on the hardness of approximation. We prove that there is no polynomial time approximation algorithm with performance guarantee smaller than 5/4 (unless P = NP). This result is an extension of the result of Hoogeveen et al. [CITE] who proved that there is no polynomial time ρ-approximation algorithm with p < 7/6 for the classical UET-UCT scheduling problem with homogeneous communication delays and an unrestricted number of identical machines.

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Bampis, Evripidis, Giroudeau, R., and König, J.-C.. "On the hardness of approximating the UET-UCT scheduling problem with hierarchical communications." RAIRO - Operations Research 36.1 (2010): 21-36. <http://eudml.org/doc/105259>.

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abstract = { We consider the unit execution time unit communication time (UET-UCT) scheduling model with hierarchical communica tions [CITE], and we study the impact of the hierarchical communications hypothesis on the hardness of approximation. We prove that there is no polynomial time approximation algorithm with performance guarantee smaller than 5/4 (unless P = NP). This result is an extension of the result of Hoogeveen et al. [CITE] who proved that there is no polynomial time ρ-approximation algorithm with p < 7/6 for the classical UET-UCT scheduling problem with homogeneous communication delays and an unrestricted number of identical machines. },
author = {Bampis, Evripidis, Giroudeau, R., König, J.-C.},
journal = {RAIRO - Operations Research},
keywords = {Scheduling; hierarchical communications; non-approxima bility.; scheduling; non-approximability},
language = {eng},
month = {3},
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title = {On the hardness of approximating the UET-UCT scheduling problem with hierarchical communications},
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AB - We consider the unit execution time unit communication time (UET-UCT) scheduling model with hierarchical communica tions [CITE], and we study the impact of the hierarchical communications hypothesis on the hardness of approximation. We prove that there is no polynomial time approximation algorithm with performance guarantee smaller than 5/4 (unless P = NP). This result is an extension of the result of Hoogeveen et al. [CITE] who proved that there is no polynomial time ρ-approximation algorithm with p < 7/6 for the classical UET-UCT scheduling problem with homogeneous communication delays and an unrestricted number of identical machines.
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