Article ID: | iaor200973019 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 61 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 172 |
End Page Number: | 177 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2010 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Wang J-B |
In this paper we consider the single-machine scheduling problems with a sum-of-actual-processing-time-based learning effect. By the sum-of-actual-processing-time-based learning effect, we mean that the processing time of a job is defined by a function of the sum of the actual processing time of the already processed jobs. We show that even with the introduction of the sum-of-actual-processing-time-based learning effect to job processing times, the makespan minimization problem, the total completion time minimization problem, the total completion time square minimization problem, and some special cases of the total weighted completion time minimization problem and the maximum lateness minimization problem remain polynomially solvable, respectively.