Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7543785 | Operations Research Letters | 2018 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We give a (2+ϵ)-approximation algorithm for minimizing total weighted completion time on a single machine under release time and precedence constraints. This settles a recent conjecture on the approximability of this scheduling problem (Skutella, 2016).
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Authors
René Sitters, Liya Yang,