Minimizing setups for cycle-free ordered sets

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society - Tập 85 Số 4 - Trang 509-513
Dwight Duffus, Ivan Rival, Peter Winkler

Tóm tắt

A machine performs a set of jobs one at a time subject to a set of precedence constraints. We consider the problem of scheduling the jobs to minimize the number of "setups".

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