Approximation algorithms for parallel open shop scheduling

作者:Chen, Yong; Zhang, An*; Chen, Guangting; Dong, Jianming
来源:Information Processing Letters, 2013, 113(7): 220-224.
DOI:10.1016/j.ipl.2013.01.009

摘要

This paper investigates the parallel open shop scheduling problem. In this problem each job consists of two independent operations, which must be non-preemptively processed by one of m parallel identical two-machine open shops. The objective is to minimize the makespan. Because of NP-hardness, we provide polynomial time approximation algorithms for the problem. If there are m open shops, our algorithm has a worst case ratio of 2. If only two open shops are valid, it can be improved to 3/2.

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