Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1706547 Applied Mathematical Modelling 2010 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

In this paper we consider the single-machine scheduling problems with job-position-based and sum-of-processing-times based processing times. The real processing time of a job is a function of its position and the total processing time of the jobs that are in front of it in the sequence. The objective is to minimize the makespan, and to minimize the mean finish time. We prove that some special cases are polynomially solvable under some restrictions of the parameters. In addition, for some another special cases of minimization of the mean finish time and the makespan, we show that an optimal schedule is V-shaped with respect to job normal processing times. Then, we propose a heuristic based on the V-shaped property, and show through a computational experiment that it performs efficiently.

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