Three dozen papers on online algorithms
ACM SIGACT News
Online scheduling of splittable tasks
ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG)
List's worst-average-case or WAC ratio
Journal of Scheduling
Online Scheduling with Bounded Migration
Mathematics of Operations Research
Online parallel machines scheduling with two hierarchies
Theoretical Computer Science
Online market driven spectrum scheduling and auction
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM workshop on Cognitive radio networks
SOFA: Strategyproof Online Frequency Allocation for Multihop Wireless Networks
ISAAC '09 Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
A robust PTAS for machine covering and packing
ESA'10 Proceedings of the 18th annual European conference on Algorithms: Part I
Offline file assignments for online load balancing
Information Processing Letters
Online scheduling with rearrangement on two related machines
Theoretical Computer Science
Online scheduling of two job types on a set of multipurpose machines with unit processing times
Computers and Operations Research
Scheduling unit length jobs on parallel machines with lookahead information
Journal of Scheduling
TOFU: semi-truthful online frequency allocation mechanism for wireless network
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Semi-online scheduling revisited
Theoretical Computer Science
D-factor: a quantitative model of application slow-down in multi-resource shared systems
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE joint international conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
Online scheduling with reassignment
Operations Research Letters
New upper and lower bounds for online scheduling with machine cost
Discrete Optimization
Online minimum makespan scheduling with a buffer
FAW-AAIM'12 Proceedings of the 6th international Frontiers in Algorithmics, and Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management
SIGACT news online algorithms column 21: APPROX and ALGO
ACM SIGACT News
Recent advances for a classical scheduling problem
ICALP'13 Proceedings of the 40th international conference on Automata, Languages, and Programming - Volume Part II
Semi-online scheduling problems on a small number of machines
Journal of Scheduling
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The problem considered here is the same as the one discussed in [G. Galambos and G. J. Woeginger, eds., SIAM J. Comput., 22 (1993), pp. 349--355]. It is an m-machine online scheduling problem in which we wish to minimize the competitive ratio for the makespan objective. In this paper, we show that $\sqrt{3}$ is a lower bound on this competitive ratio for m=4. In particular, we show how to force a lower bound of $\sqrt{3\,}-\epsilon $ for any positive $\epsilon $. This reduces the gap between the performance of known algorithms [S. Albers, in Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, ACM, New York, 1997, pp. 130--139] and the lower bound. The method used introduces an approach to building the task master's strategy.