Unbounded parallel batch scheduling with job delivery to minimize makespan

  • Authors:
  • Lingfa Lu;Jinjiang Yuan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan 450052, People's Republic of China;Department of Mathematics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan 450052, People's Republic of China

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We consider unbounded parallel batch scheduling with job delivery to minimize makespan. When the jobs have identical size, we provide a polynomial-time algorithm. When the jobs have non-identical sizes, we provide a heuristic with a worst-case performance ratio 7/4.