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IPCO
1998
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13 years 8 months ago
Non-approximability Results for Scheduling Problems with Minsum Criteria
We provide several non-approximability results for deterministic scheduling problems whose objective is to minimize the total job completion time. Unless P = NP, none of the probl...
Han Hoogeveen, Petra Schuurman, Gerhard J. Woeging...
APPROX
2009
Springer
163views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
The Power of Preemption on Unrelated Machines and Applications to Scheduling Orders
Abstract. Scheduling jobs on unrelated parallel machines so as to minimize the makespan is one of the basic, well-studied problems in the area of machine scheduling. In the first ...
José R. Correa, Martin Skutella, José...