Title
Complexity of minimizing the total flow time with interval data and minmax regret criterion
Abstract
We consider the minmax regret (robust) version of the problem of scheduling n jobs on a machine to minimize the total flow time, where the processing times of the jobs are uncertain and can take on any values from the corresponding intervals of uncertainty. We prove that the problem in NP-hard. For the case where all intervals of uncertainty have the same center, we show that the problem can be solved in O(n log n) time if the number of jobs is even, and is NP-hard if the number of jobs is odd. We study structural properties of the problem and discuss some polynomially solvable cases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1016/j.dam.2005.04.015
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
polynomially solvable case,n job,n log n,robust scheduling,total flow time,corresponding interval,uncertainty,processing time,minmax regret,complexity,interval data,minmax regret criterion,structural property
Discrete mathematics,Mathematical optimization,Minimax,Regret,Scheduling (computing),Flow time,Time complexity,Mathematics,Interval data,Data flow diagram
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
154
15
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
35
1.67
5
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vasilij Lebedev11296.32
Igor Averbakh269954.76