A best on-line algorithm for the single machine parallel-batch scheduling with restricted delivery times

A best on-line algorithm for the single machine parallel-batch scheduling with restricted delivery times

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Article ID: iaor200937827
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 17
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 206
End Page Number: 213
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Journal: Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
Authors: , , ,
Abstract:

We consider a single batch machine on-line scheduling problem with delivery times. In this paper on-line means that jobs arrive over time and the characteristics of jobs are unknown until their arrival times. Once the processing of a job is completed it is delivered to the destination. The objective is to minimize the time by which all jobs have been delivered. For each job J j , its processing time and delivery time are denoted by p j and q j , respectively. We consider two restricted models: (1) the jobs have small delivery times, i.e., for each job J j , q j p j ; (2) the jobs have agreeable processing and delivery times, i.e., for any two jobs J i and J j , p i > p j implies q i q j . We provide an on-line algorithm with competitive ratio (√5+1)/2 for both problems, and the results are the best possible.

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