Improving the solution complexity of the scheduling problem with deadlines: A general technique
Elalouf, Amir1 ; Levner, Eugene2
1 Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
2 Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, Israel.
RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle, Special issue - Advanced Optimization Approaches and Modern OR-Applications, Tome 50 (2016) no. 4-5, pp. 681-687.

The aim of this paper is to develop improved polynomial-time approximation algorithms belonging to the family of the fully polynomial time approximation schemes (FPTAS) for a group of scheduling problems. In particular, the new technique provides a positive answer to a question posed more than three decades ago by Gens and Levner [G.V. Gens and E.V. Levner, Discrete Appl. Math. 3 (1981) 313–318]: “Can an epsilon-approximation algorithm be found for the minimization version of the job-sequencing-with-deadlines problem running with the same complexity as the algorithms for the maximization form of the problem?”

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DOI : 10.1051/ro/2016021
Classification : 41A29, 41A10, 65D15, 65Y10, 68Q25
Mots-clés : Job-sequencing-with-deadlines scheduling problem, approximation algorithm, FPTAS
Elalouf, Amir 1 ; Levner, Eugene 2

1 Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
2 Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, Israel. 
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Elalouf, Amir; Levner, Eugene. Improving the solution complexity of the scheduling problem with deadlines: A general technique. RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle, Special issue - Advanced Optimization Approaches and Modern OR-Applications, Tome 50 (2016) no. 4-5, pp. 681-687. doi : 10.1051/ro/2016021. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1051/ro/2016021/

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