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2021, STOC 2021: Proceedings of the 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, Pages 1070-1080

Flow time scheduling with uncertain processing time (04b Atto di convegno in volume)

Azar Yossi, Leonardi Stefano, Touitou Noam

We consider the problem of online scheduling on a single machine in order to minimize weighted flow time. The existing algorithms for this problem (STOC ’01, SODA ’03, FOCS ’18) all require exact knowledge of the processing time of each job. This assumption is crucial, as even a slight perturbation of the processing time would lead to polynomial competitive ratio. However, this assumption very rarely holds in real-life scenarios. In this paper, we present the first algorithm for weighted flow time which do not require exact knowledge of the processing times of jobs. Specifically, we introduce the Scheduling with Predicted Processing Time (SPPT) problem, where the algorithm is given a prediction for the processing time of each job, instead of its real processing time. For the case of a constant factor distortion between the predictions and the real processing time, our algorithms match all the best known competitiveness bounds for weighted flow time – namely O(logP), O(logD) and O(logW), where P,D,W are the maximum ratios of processing times, densities, and weights, respectively. For larger errors, the competitiveness of our algorithms degrades gracefully.
ISBN: 9781450380539
Gruppo di ricerca: Algorithms and Data Science
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