Better approximation guarantees for job-shop scheduling
Conference
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OSTI ID:476036
- Univ. of Warwick, Conventry (United Kingdom)
- National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore); and others
Job-shop scheduling is a classical NP-hard problem. Shmoys, Stein & 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). We also present NC algorithms with improved approximation guarantees for some NP-hard special cases.
- OSTI ID:
- 476036
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970142--; CNN: Project 20244; Project 21726; Grant NSF-STC91-19999; Contract 7141
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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