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JCO
1998
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Improved Bounds on Relaxations of a Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem
We consider the problem of scheduling n jobs with release dates on m identical parallel machines to minimize the average completion time of the jobs. We prove that the ratio of the...
Cynthia A. Phillips, Andreas S. Schulz, David B. S...
APPROX
2009
Springer
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14 years 6 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...