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A PTAS for Scheduling with Tree Assignment Restrictions

Data Structures and Algorithms 2010-09-24 v1

Abstract

Scheduling with assignment restrictions is an important special case of scheduling unrelated machines which has attracted much attention in the recent past. While a lower bound on approximability of 3/2 is known for its most general setting, subclasses of the problem admit polynomial-time approximation schemes. This note provides a PTAS for tree-like hierarchical structures, improving on a recent 4/3-approximation by Huo and Leung.

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@article{arxiv.1009.4529,
  title  = {A PTAS for Scheduling with Tree Assignment Restrictions},
  author = {Ulrich M. Schwarz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.4529},
  year   = {2010}
}

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6 pages

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