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Scheduling with regular performance measures and optional job rejection on a single machine

Discrete Mathematics 2018-02-02 v2 Performance

Abstract

We address single machine problems with optional jobs - rejection, studied recently in Zhang et al. [21] and Cao et al. [2]. In these papers, the authors focus on minimizing regular performance measures, i.e., functions that are non-decreasing in the jobs completion time, subject to the constraint that the total rejection cost cannot exceed a predefined upper bound. They also prove that the considered problems are ordinary NP-hard and provide pseudo-polynomial-time Dynamic Programming (DP) solutions. In this paper, we focus on three of these problems: makespan with release-dates; total completion times; and total weighted completion, and present enhanced DP solutions demonstrating both theoretical and practical improvements. Moreover, we provide extensive numerical studies verifying their efficiency.

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@article{arxiv.1711.03720,
  title  = {Scheduling with regular performance measures and optional job rejection on a single machine},
  author = {Baruch Mor and Dana Shapira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.03720},
  year   = {2018}
}
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