An Improved Approximation Algorithm for the Ancient Scheduling Problem with Deadlines

Eugene Levner, A. Elalouf

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to develop an improved polynomial-time approximation algorithm belonging to the family of the fully polynomial time approximation schemes (FPTAS), for an ancient scheduling problem with deadlines. The algorithm permits to answer a question posed more than three decades ago in Gens & Levner (1981): “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?” The new algorithm provides the positive answer.
Original languageAmerican English
StatePublished - 2014
EventControl, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), 2014 International Conference on - Metz, France
Duration: 3 Nov 20147 Nov 2014

Conference

ConferenceControl, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), 2014 International Conference on
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityMetz
Period3/11/147/11/14

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