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CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
Improved Approximations for Multiprocessor Scheduling Under Uncertainty
This paper presents improved approximation algorithms for the problem of multiprocessor scheduling under uncertainty (SUU), in which the execution of each job may fail probabilist...
Christopher Y. Crutchfield, Zoran Dzunic, Jeremy T...
ESA
2006
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Approximation in Preemptive Stochastic Online Scheduling
Abstract. We present a first constant performance guarantee for preemptive stochastic scheduling to minimize the sum of weighted completion times. For scheduling jobs with release ...
Nicole Megow, Tjark Vredeveld
ICALP
2001
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
On the Approximability of Average Completion Time Scheduling under Precedence Constraints
Abstract. We consider the scheduling problem of minimizing the average weighted job completion time on a single machine under precedence constraints. We show that this problem with...
Gerhard J. Woeginger
EOR
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
Considering manufacturing cost and scheduling performance on a CNC turning machine
A well known industry application that allows controllable processing times is the manufacturing operations on CNC machines. For each turning operation as an example, there is a n...
Sinan Gurel, M. Selim Akturk
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Value Function Based Production Scheduling
Production scheduling, the problem of sequentially con guring a factory to meet forecasted demands, is a critical problem throughout the manufacturing industry. The requirement of...
Jeff G. Schneider, Justin A. Boyan, Andrew W. Moor...