An R||C_{max} Quantum Scheduling Algorithm

dc.creatorLu, Feng
dc.creatorMarinescu, Dan C.
dc.date2005-11-03
dc.date2006-09-29
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:52:39Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T06:52:39Z
dc.descriptionGrover's search algorithm can be applied to a wide range of problems; even problems not generally regarded as searching problems, can be reformulated to take advantage of quantum parallelism and entanglement, and lead to algorithms which show a square root speedup over their classical counterparts. In this paper, we discuss a systematic way to formulate such problems and give as an example a quantum scheduling algorithm for an $R||C_{max}$ problem. $R||C_{max}$ is representative for a class of scheduling problems whose goal is to find a schedule with the shortest completion time in an unrelated parallel machine environment. Given a deadline, or a range of deadlines, the algorithm presented in this paper allows us to determine if a solution to an $R||C_{max}$ problem with $N$ jobs and $M$ machines exists, and if so, it provides the schedule. The time complexity of the quantum scheduling algorithm is $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{M^N})$ while the complexity of its classical counterpart is $\mathcal{O}(M^N)$.
dc.description15 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0511028
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0511028
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/105366
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleAn R||C_{max} Quantum Scheduling Algorithm
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