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Xuanke JIANG Sherief HASHIMA Kohei HATANO Eiji TAKIMOTO
In this paper, we investigate an online job scheduling problem with n jobs and k servers, where the accessibilities between the jobs and the servers are given as a bipartite graph. The scheduler is tasked with minimizing the regret, defined as the difference between the total flow time of the scheduler over T rounds and that of the best-fixed scheduling in hindsight. We propose an algorithm whose regret bounds are $O(n^2 sqrt{Tln (nk)})$ for general bipartite graphs, $O((n^2/k^{1/2}) sqrt{Tln (nk)})$ for the complete bipartite graphs, and $O((n^2/k) sqrt{T ln (nk)}$ for the disjoint star graphs, respectively. We also give a lower regret bound of $Omega((n^2/k) sqrt{T})$ for the disjoint star graphs, implying that our regret bounds are almost optimal.