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
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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},
	number = {1},
	pages = {21-36},
	publisher = {EDP Sciences},
	title = {On the hardness of approximating the UET-UCT scheduling problem with hierarchical communications},
	url = {http://eudml.org/doc/105259},
	volume = {36},
	year = {2010},
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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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