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A PTAS for Minimizing the Total Weighted Completion Time on Identical Parallel Machines

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A PTAS for Minimizing the Total Weighted Completion Time on Identical Parallel Machines
We consider the problem of scheduling a set of n jobs on m identical parallel machines so as to minimize the weighted sum of job completion times. This problem is NP-hard in the strong sense. The best approximation result known so far was a 1 2 1+ p2 approximation algorithm that has been derived by Kawaguchi and Kyan back in 1986. The contribution of this paper is a polynomial time approximation scheme for this setting, which settles a problem that was open for a long time. Moreover, our result constitutes the rst known approximation scheme for a strongly NP-hard scheduling problem with minsum objective. Key words: scheduling theory, approximation algorithm, approximation scheme, worst-case ratio, combinatorial optimization
Martin Skutella, Gerhard J. Woeginger
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Type Journal
Year 2000
Where MOR
Authors Martin Skutella, Gerhard J. Woeginger
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