A Simple Algorithm for Scheduling Unit Jobs with Unknown Number of Machines
摘要
This paper investigates a two-stage online scheduling problem for parallel machines with the goal of minimizing the makespan. The first stage requires packing a set of n unit jobs into M bags. In the second stage, these bags are allocated to \(m\le M\) machines, with the constraint that jobs within the same bag are processed on the same machine. By introducing an elaborate way of packing, we have developed an online algorithm based on the rule of the LPT and demonstrated that it is the optimal algorithm with a competitive ratio of \(\frac{4}{3}\) .