Minimizing makespan on a single batching machine with release times and non-identical job sizes
โ Scribed by Shuguang Li; Guojun Li; Xiaoli Wang; Qiming Liu
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 214 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-6377
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โฆ Synopsis
We consider the problem of scheduling jobs with release times and non-identical job sizes on a single batching machine; our objective is to minimize makespan. We present an approximation algorithm with worst-case ratio 2 + , where ยฟ 0 can be made arbitrarily small.
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