This work is aimed at investigating the online scheduling problem on two parallel and identical machines with a new feature that service requests from various customers are entitled to many different grade of service (GoS) levels, so each job and machine are labelled with the GoS levels, and each job can be processed by a particular machine only when its GoS level is no less than that of the machine. The goal is to minimize the makespan. For non-preemptive version, we propose an optimal online al-gorithm with competitive ratio 5/3. For preemptive version, we propose an optimal online algorithm with competitive ratio 3/2.
In this paper,a new concept of an optimal complete multipartite decomposition of type 1 (type 2) of a complete n-partite graph Q n is proposed and another new concept of a normal complete multipartite decomposition of K n is introduced.It is showed that an optimal complete multipartite decomposition of type 1 of K n is a normal complete multipartite decomposition.As for any complete multipartite decomposition of K n,there is a derived complete multipartite decomposition for Q n.It is also showed that any optimal complete multipartite decomposition of type 1 of Q n is a derived decomposition of an optimal complete multipartite decomposition of type 1 of K n.Besides,some structural properties of an optimal complete multipartite decomposition of type 1 of K n are given.
Huang QingxueDept. of Math., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou 310027, China.
This paper investigates preemptive semi-online scheduling problems on m identical parallel machines, where the total size of all jobs is known in advance. The goal is to minimize the maximum machine completion time or maximize the minimum machine completion time. For the first objective, we present an optimal semi-online algorithm with competitive ratio 1. For the second objective, we show that the competitive ratio of any semi-online algorithm is at least (2m-3)/(m-1) for any m>2 and present optimal semi-online algorithms for m=2, 3.
