Article ID: | iaor20052156 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 26 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 149 |
End Page Number: | 154 |
Publication Date: | May 2000 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Goemans Michel X., Williamson David P., Wein Joel M. |
Keywords: | computational analysis, programming: linear |
In this note, we give a 1.47-approximation algorithm for the preemtpive scheduling of jobs with release dates on a single machine so as to minimize the weighted sum of job completion times; this problem is denoted by