Essays on Integer Programming in Military and Power Management Applications

This dissertation presents three essays on important problems motivated by military and power management applications. The array antenna design problem deals with optimal arrangements of substructures called subarrays. The considered class of the stochastic assignment problem addresses uncertainty of assignment weights over time. The well-studied deterministic counterpart of the problem has many applications including some classes of the weapon-target assignment. The speed scaling problem is of minimizing energy consumption of parallel processors in a data warehouse environment. We study each problem to discover its underlying structure and formulate tailored mathematical models. Exact, approximate, and heuristic solution approaches employing advanced optimization techniques are proposed. They are validated through simulations and their superiority is demonstrated through extensive computational experiments. Novelty of the developed methods and their methodological contribution to the field of Operations Research is discussed through out the dissertation

Algorithmes exacts et approchés pour des problèmes d'ordonnancement et de placement

Dans cette thèse, nous nous intéressons à la résolution de quelques problèmes d'optimisation combinatoires que nous avons choisi de traiter en deux volets. Dans un premier temps, nous étudions des problèmes d'optimisation issus de l'ordonnancement d'un ensemble de tâches sur des machines de calcul et où on cherche à minimiser l'énergie totale consommée par ces machines tout en préservant une qualité de service acceptable. Dans un deuxième temps, nous traitons deux problèmes d'optimisation classiques à savoir un problème d'ordonnancement dans une architecture de machines parallèles avec des temps de communication, et un problème de placement de données dans des graphes modélisant des réseaux pair-à-pair et visant à minimiser le coût total d'accès aux données.In this thesis, we focus on solving some combinatorial optimization problems that we have chosen to study in two parts. Firstly, we study optimization problems issued from scheduling a set of tasks on computing machines where we seek to minimize the total energy consumed by these machines while maintaining acceptable quality of service. In a second step, we discuss two optimization problems, namely a classical scheduling problem in architecture of parallel machines with communication delays, and a problem of placing data in graphs that represent peer-to-peer networks and the goal is to minimize the total cost of data access.EVRY-Bib. électronique (912289901) / SudocSudocFranceF

Competitive Non-migratory Scheduling for Flow Time and Energy

Energy usage has been an important concern in recent research on online scheduling. In this paper we extend the study of the tradeoff between flow time and energy from the single-processor setting [8, 6] to the multi-processor setting. Our main result is an analysis of a simple non-migratory online algorithm called CRR (classified round robin) on m ≥ 2 processors, showing that its flow time plus energy is within O(1) times of the optimal non-migratory offline algorithm, when the maximum allowable speed is slightly relaxed. This result still holds even if the comparison is made against the optimal migratory offline algorithm (the competitive ratio increases by a factor of 2.5). As a special case, our work also contributes to the traditional online flow-time scheduling. Specifically, for minimizing flow time only, CRR can yield a competitive ratio one or even arbitrarily smaller than one, when using sufficiently faster processors. Prior to our work, similar result is only known for online algorithms that needs migration [21, 23], while the best non-migratory result can achieve an O(1) competitive ratio [14]. The above result stems from an interesting observation that there always exists some optimal migratory schedule S that can be converted (in an offline sense) to a non-migratory schedule S ′ with a moderate increase in flow time plus energy. More importantly, this non-migratory schedule always dispatches jobs in the same way as CRR