Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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437807 | Theoretical Computer Science | 2009 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We consider the online scheduling on two parallel batch machines with infinite batch size to minimize makespan, where jobs arrive over time. That is, all information of a job is not available until it is released. For this online scheduling problem, Nong et al. [Q.Q. Nong, T.C.E. Cheng, C.T. Ng, An improved online algorithm for scheduling on two unrestrictive parallel batch processing machines, Operations Research Letters, 36 (2008) 584–588] have provided an online algorithm with competitive ratio no greater than . We show that this bound is tight for the problem. Furthermore we give a new best possible online algorithm with a tighter structure.
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