Discrete Optimization

Online Scheduling with Rejection to Minimize the Total Weighted Completion Time Plus the Total Rejection Cost on Parallel Machines

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  • 1 School of Mathematics and Information Science, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, Henan, China 2 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China

Received date: 2015-03-03

  Revised date: 2015-06-14

  Online published: 2015-07-17

Abstract

We consider the online scheduling with job rejection to minimize the total weighted completion time of the scheduled jobs plus the total rejection penalty of the rejected jobs. In the problem, a set of independent jobs arriving online over time has to be scheduled with the flexibility of rejecting some of the jobs, where preemption is not allowed and the information of each job, including its processing time, release date, weight, and rejection penalty, is not known in advance. For this problem, using a technique named Greedy-Interval-Rejection, we provide an online algorithm with a competitive ratio of at most 4+ε on identical machines and an online algorithm with a competitive ratio of at most 8 on unrelated machines, respectively.

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Ran Ma · Jin-Jiang Yuan . Online Scheduling with Rejection to Minimize the Total Weighted Completion Time Plus the Total Rejection Cost on Parallel Machines[J]. Journal of the Operations Research Society of China, 2016 , 4(1) : 111 . DOI: 10.1007/s40305-015-0093-z

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