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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2006, Vol. 7 Issue (3): 309-314    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.2006.A0309
Computer & Information Science     
Optimal online algorithms for scheduling on two identical machines under a grade of service
Jiang Yi-wei, He Yong, Tang Chun-mei
Laboratory of Information and Optimization Technologies, Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, Ningbo 315100, China; Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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Abstract  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 algorithm with competitive ratio 5/3. For preemptive version, we propose an optimal online algorithm with competitive ratio 3/2.

Key wordsOnline algorithm      Competitive analysis      Parallel machine scheduling      Grade of service (GoS)     
Received: 10 February 2005     
CLC:  TP393  
  O223  
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Jiang Yi-wei, He Yong, Tang Chun-mei. Optimal online algorithms for scheduling on two identical machines under a grade of service. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2006, 7(3): 309-314.

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http://www.zjujournals.com/xueshu/zjus-a/10.1631/jzus.2006.A0309     OR     http://www.zjujournals.com/xueshu/zjus-a/Y2006/V7/I3/309

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