In this paper we consider the following time constrained scheduling problem. Given a set of jobs J with execution times e(j)∈(0, 1] and an undirected graph G=(J, E), we consider the problem to find a schedule for the jobs such that adjacent jobs (j,j')∈E are assigned to different machines and that the total execution time for each machine is at most 1. The goal is to find a minimum number of machines to execute all jobs under this time constraint. This scheduling problem is a natural generalization of the classical bin packing problem. We propose and analyse several approximation algorithms with constant absolute worst case ratio for graphs that can be colored in polynomial time
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Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, 1995. ICAPP 95. IEEE First ICA/sup 3/PP., IEEE First International Conference on
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Date of Conference: 19-21 Apr 1995