Scheduling jobs with release times preemptively on a single machine to minimize the number of late jobs

  • Authors:
  • Nodari Vakhania

  • Affiliations:
  • Science Faculty, State University of Morelos, Mexico and Inst. of Computational Math., Georgian Academy of Sciences, Georgia

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We give a direct combinatorial O(n^3logn) algorithm for minimizing the number of late jobs on a single machine when jobs have release times and preemptions are allowed. Our algorithm improves the earlier O(n^5) and O(n^4) dynamic programming algorithms for this problem.