Kuala, Lumpur, Malaysiam, 3rd International Multidisciplinary Conference on Education, Engineering and Social Sciences, Kuala-Lumpur, Malezya, 26 Kasım 2022
For the online hierarchical scheduling problem on two parallel machines, the objective is to maximize the minimum machine load. When the processing times are bounded by an interval [1, alpha], Luo and Xu [8] designed an optimal algorithm with a competitive ratio of 1 + alpha based on the threshold method. In this paper, we propose a simpler optimal online algorithm based on modified list scheduling.