Journal of the Operations Research Society of China ›› 2018, Vol. 6 ›› Issue (3): 455-466.doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40305-017-0179-x

所属专题: Management Science

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  • 出版日期:2018-09-30 发布日期:2018-09-30

Online Scheduling on Bounded Batch Machines to Minimize the MaximumWeighted Completion Time

Wen-Hua Li1,2 ·,Xing Chai1   

  1. 1 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
    2 Henan Key Laboratory of Financial Engineering, Zhengzhou 450001, China
  • Online:2018-09-30 Published:2018-09-30
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    This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11571321 and 11401065) and the Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province (No. 15IRTSTHN006).

Abstract:

We investigate the online scheduling problem on identical parallel-batch machines to minimize the maximum weighted completion time. In this problem, jobs arrive over time and the processing times (of the jobs) are identical, and the batch capacity is bounded. For this problem, we provide a best possible online algorithm with a competitive ratio of . Moreover, when restricted to dense-algorithms, we present a best possible dense-algorithm with a competitive ratio of 2.

Key words: Scheduling ·, Online algorithms ·, Maximum weighted completion time ·, Competitive ratio