Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Deadline Scheduling as Restless Bandits   The problem of stochastic deadline scheduling is considered. A constrained
Markov decision process model is introduced in which jobs arrive randomly at a
service center with stochastic job sizes, rewards, and completion deadlines.
The service provider faces random processing costs, convex non-completion
penalties, and a capacity constraint that limits the simultaneous processing of
jobs. Formulated as a restless multi-armed bandit problem, the stochastic
deadline scheduling problem is shown to be indexable. A closed-form expression
of the Whittle's index is obtained for the case when the processing costs are
constant. An upper bound on the gap-to-optimality for the Whittle's index
policy is obtained, and it is shown that the bound converges to zero as the job
arrival rate and the number of available processors increase simultaneously to
infinity.

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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: cs
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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph