Competitive analysis of preemptive single-machine scheduling

  • Authors:
  • René Sitters

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We give an online algorithm for minimizing the total weighted completion time on a single machine where preemption of jobs is allowed and prove that its competitive ratio is at most 1.57.