Scheduling Interval-Ordered Tasks
Author(s) -
Christos H. Papadimitriou,
Mihalis Yannakakis
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
siam journal on computing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.533
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1095-7111
pISSN - 0097-5397
DOI - 10.1137/0208031
Subject(s) - scheduling (production processes) , computer science , interval graph , chordal graph , interval (graph theory) , parallel computing , complement (music) , constraint (computer aided design) , execution time , combinatorics , mathematics , discrete mathematics , mathematical optimization , theoretical computer science , graph , biochemistry , chemistry , geometry , 1 planar graph , complementation , gene , phenotype
We show that unit execution time jobs subject to a precedence constraint whose complement is chordal can be scheduled in linear time on m processors. Generalizations to arbitrary execution times are NP-complete.
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