Soper, Alan J. ORCID: 0000-0002-0901-9803 and Strusevich, Vitaly A. (2018) Schedules with a single preemption on uniform parallel machines. Discrete Applied Mathematics. ISSN 0166-218X (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2018.03.007)

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Abstract

For a scheduling problem to minimize the makespan on parallel machines, we consider schedules with at most one preemption. We show that in the case of two machines the problem is solvable in polynomial time. For m≥3 uniform parallel machines, we measure the quality of a single preemption as the worst-case ratio of the makespan of an optimal schedule with at most one preemption over the makespan of an optimal preemptive schedule. We show that the global bound on such a ratio is 2-2/m.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Scheduling, uniform parallel machines, power of preemption, quality of a single preemption
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science > School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences (CMS) Faculty of Engineering & Science
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Last Modified:	04 Mar 2022 13:07
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/19683

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