Article ID: | iaor20052122 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 133 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 175 |
End Page Number: | 181 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2005 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Yu Wenci, Poon Chung Keung |
We study on-line scheduling on a batch machine with infinite capacity. We present a flexible on-line scheduling algorithm that aims at minimizing the makespan and achieves the optimal competitive ratio of