Batch processing with interval graph compatibilities between tasks

  • Authors:
  • Gerd Finke;Vincent Jost;Maurice Queyranne;András Seb

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire Leibniz-IMAG, Grenoble, France;Laboratoire Leibniz-IMAG, Grenoble, France;Laboratoire Leibniz-IMAG, Grenoble, France;Laboratoire Leibniz-IMAG, Grenoble, France

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We analyze batch-scheduling problems that arise in connection with certain industrial applications. The models concern processing on a single max-batch machine with the additional feature that the tasks of the same batch have to be compatible. Compatibility is a symmetric binary relation-the compatible pairs are described with an undirected ''compatibility graph'', which is often an interval graph according to some natural practical conditions that we present. We consider several models with varying batch capacities, processing times or compatibility graphs. We summarize known results, and present a min-max formula and polynomial time algorithms.