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    FPTAS for half-products minimization with scheduling applications
    (Elsevier, 2008) Erel, E.; Ghosh, J. B.
    A special class of quadratic pseudo-boolean functions called "half-products" (HP) has recently been introduced. It has been shown that HP minimization, while NP-hard, admits a fully polynomial time approximation scheme (FPTAS). In this note, we provide a more efficient FPTAS. We further show how an FPTAS can also be derived for the general case where the HP function is augmented by a problem-dependent constant and can justifiably be assumed to be nonnegative. This leads to an FPTAS for certain partitioning type problems, including many from the field of scheduling.
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    One-dimensional partitioning for heterogeneous systems: theory and practice
    (Academic Press, 2008-11) Pınar, A.; Tabak, E. K.; Aykanat, Cevdet
    We study the problem of one-dimensional partitioning of nonuniform workload arrays, with optimal load balancing for heterogeneous systems. We look at two cases: chain-on-chain partitioning, where the order of the processors is specified, and chain partitioning, where processor permutation is allowed. We present polynomial time algorithms to solve the chain-on-chain partitioning problem optimally, while we prove that the chain partitioning problem is NP-complete. Our empirical studies show that our proposed exact algorithms produce substantially better results than heuristics, while solution times remain comparable. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.