| Article ID: | iaor201530551 |
| Volume: | 67 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 83 |
| End Page Number: | 86 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2016 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Li Chung-Lun, Lee Kangbok |
| Keywords: | combinatorial optimization |
We consider the problem of scheduling n jobs on m parallel machines with inclusive processing set restrictions. Each job has a given release date, and all jobs have equal processing times. The objective is to minimize the makespan of the schedule. Li and Li (2015) have developed an O(n2+mn logn) time algorithm for this problem. In this note, we present a modified algorithm with an improved time complexity of O(min{m, logn} ⋅ n logn).