Title
Scheduling jobs with truncated exponential learning functions.
Abstract
In this paper we consider the single machine scheduling problem with truncated exponential learning functions. By the truncated exponential learning functions, we mean that the actual job processing time is a function which depends not only on the total normal processing times of the jobs already processed but also on a control parameter. The use of the truncated function is to model the phenomenon that the learning of a human activity is limited. We show that even with the introduction of the proposed model to job processing times, several single machine problems remain polynomially solvable. For the following three objective functions, the total weighted completion time, the discounted total weighted completion time, the maximum lateness, we present heuristic algorithms according to the corresponding problems without truncated exponential learning functions. We also analyse the worst-case bound of our heuristic algorithms. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s11590-011-0433-9
Optimization Letters
Keywords
Field
DocType
Scheduling,Single machine,Learning effect,Heuristic algorithm
Single-machine scheduling,Heuristic,Mathematical optimization,Learning effect,Exponential function,Scheduling (computing),Heuristic (computer science),Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
8
18624480
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.52
23
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jibo Wang174541.50
Xiao-Yuan Wang2423.99
Linhui Sun3534.15
Linyan Sun4967.16