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Bin stretching revisited. (English) Zbl 1034.68039

Summary: We study three on-line models of bin stretching on two machines. For the case where the machines are identical and the jobs arrive sorted by non-increasing sizes, we show a tight bound of 10/9 on the competitive ratio. For two related machines, we show a preemptive algorithm with competitive ratio 1 for any speed ratio, and two new non-preemptive algorithms. We prove that the upper bound on the competitive ratio achieved by the non-preemptive algorithms is optimal for almost any speed ratio, and close to optimal for all other speed ratios.

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68Q10 Modes of computation (nondeterministic, parallel, interactive, probabilistic, etc.)
68M20 Performance evaluation, queueing, and scheduling in the context of computer systems
68Q25 Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity
68W40 Analysis of algorithms
90Bxx Operations research and management science
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