20.1 - Introduction
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Practice Questions
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Define lateness in the context of scheduling.
💡 Hint: Think about the relationship between job finish times and deadlines.
What is a Greedy Algorithm?
💡 Hint: Focus on how choices are made one at a time.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does the schedule aim to minimize?
💡 Hint: Focus on the primary goal of the scheduling process.
True or False: Greedy algorithms guarantee the best solution for all optimization problems.
💡 Hint: Think about the limitations of greedy strategies.
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Challenge Problems
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Given a list of jobs with their respective processing times and deadlines, construct a schedule and calculate the maximum lateness. Explain each choice in your schedule.
💡 Hint: Focus on how each job's timing aligns with deadlines.
Create a situation with three jobs that can be optimized by removing inversions in the order of scheduling. Show the initial and adjusted schedules.
💡 Hint: Reflect on what an inversion looks like in your job order.
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