Article ID: | iaor20013926 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 52 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 234 |
End Page Number: | 237 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2001 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Cheng T.C. Edwin, Wang Guoqing |
In this paper we study the scheduling of a given set of jobs on several identical parallel machines tended by a common server. Each job must be processed on one of the machines. Prior to processing, the server has to set up the relevant machine. The objective is to schedule the jobs so as to minimize the total weighted job completion times. We provide an approximation algorithm to tackle this intractable problem and analyze the worst-case performance of the algorithm for the general, as well as a special, case of the problem.