20.7 - Transforming Schedule
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Practice Questions
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Define lateness in the context of scheduling jobs.
💡 Hint: Think about the relationship between finishing a job and the deadline.
What is a greedy algorithm?
💡 Hint: Focus on how decisions are made in stages.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the goal of the Minimizing Lateness problem?
💡 Hint: Think about what we are trying to achieve with the schedule.
True or False: The greedy strategy that sorts jobs by their shortest time to completion will always yield the best solution for minimizing lateness.
💡 Hint: Review the counterexamples discussed.
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Challenge Problems
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You have five jobs with the following lengths and deadlines: { (1, 2), (2, 4), (3, 6), (1, 3), (4, 8) }. Which order minimizes maximum lateness?
💡 Hint: Prioritize jobs based on deadlines.
If a job takes 5 units of time and has a deadline of 10, but another job takes 1 unit of time with a deadline of 5, analyze the best scheduling approach.
💡 Hint: Think about the implications of finishing one before the other.
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