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Goldberg, Leslie Ann, Paterson, Michael S., Srinavasan, Aravind and Sweedyk, Elizabeth (1996) Better approximation guarantees for job-shop scheduling. University of Warwick. Department of Computer Science. (Department of Computer Science research report). (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Job-shop scheduling is a classical NP-hard problem. Shmoys, Stein and Wein presented the first polynomial-time approximation algorithm for this problem that has a good (polylogarithmic) approximation guarantee. We improve the approximation guarantee of their work, and present further improvements for some important NP-hard special cases of this problem (e.g., in the preemptive case where machines can suspend work on operations and later resume). Some of these improvements represent the first constant-factor approximation algorithms. We also present NC algorithms with improved approximation guarantees for some NP-hard special cases.
Item Type: | Report | ||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Production scheduling -- Mathematical models | ||||
Series Name: | Department of Computer Science research report | ||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick. Department of Computer Science | ||||
Official Date: | August 1996 | ||||
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Number: | Number 312 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 14 | ||||
DOI: | CS-RR-312 | ||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of Computer Science | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | L.A. Goldberg, M.S. Paterson, A. Srinivasan and E. Sweedyk, “Better Approximation Guarantees for Job-shop Scheduling”, <i>Proceedings of the Eighth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms</i>, pp. 599-608 (1997) | ||||
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