Scheduling chains to minimize mean flow time

Moshe Dror; Wieslaw Kubiak; Paolo Dell'Olmo

doi:10.1016/s0020-0190(97)00037-9

Scheduling chains to minimize mean flow time

Moshe Dror, Wieslaw Kubiak, Paolo Dell'Olmo

Management Information Systems

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In this note we consider the chain precedence relation in scheduling and distinguish between strong chains and weak chains. We prove that for two identical parallel processors the mean flow time problem with strong chains can be solved in polynomial time whereas for weak chains the same problem is NP-hard in the strong sense.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	297-301
Number of pages	5
Journal	Information Processing Letters
Volume	61
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/s0020-0190(97)00037-9
State	Published - Mar 28 1997

Keywords

Analysis of algorithms
Combinatorial problems
Computational complexity

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Theoretical Computer Science
Signal Processing
Information Systems
Computer Science Applications

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