List scheduling for jobs with arbitrary release times and similar lengths

Journal of Scheduling - Tập 10 - Trang 365-373 - 2007
Rongheng Li1, Huei-Chuen Huang2
1Department of Mathematics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
2Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Tóm tắt

This paper considers the problem of on-line scheduling a list of independent jobs in which each job has an arbitrary release time and length in [1,r] with r≥1 on m parallel identical machines. For the list scheduling algorithm, we give an upper bound of the competitive ratio for any m≥1 and show that the upper bound is tight when m=1. When m=2, we present a tight bound for r≥4. For r<4, we give a lower bound and show that 2 provides an upper bound.

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