Title
Positive half-products and scheduling with controllable processing times
Abstract
We study the single machine scheduling problem with controllable job processing times to minimize a linear combination of the total weighted job completion time and the total weighted processing time compression. We show that this scheduling problem is a positive half-product minimization problem. Positive half-products make up an interesting subclass of half-products and are introduced in this paper to provide a conceptual framework for the problem with controllable job processing times as well as other problems. This framework allows to readily derive in one fell swoop a number of results for the problem with controllable processing times from more general results obtained earlier for the half-product. We also present fast fully polynomial time approximation schemes for the problem with controllable processing times. The schemes apply to all positive half-products.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.ejor.2004.04.012
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Single machine scheduling,Controllable processing times,Pseudo-Boolean optimization,Fully polynomial time approximation scheme,Computational complexity
Linear combination,Mathematical optimization,Single-machine scheduling,Job shop scheduling,Controllability,Scheduling (computing),Algorithm,Time complexity,Polynomial-time approximation scheme,Mathematics,Computational complexity theory
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
165
2
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
1.08
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adam Janiak177251.89
Mikhail Y. Kovalyov21602118.18
Wieslaw Kubiak354062.61
Frank Werner451853.24