Two-Agent scheduling on an unbounded serial batching machine

  • Authors:
  • Mikhail Y. Kovalyov;Ammar Oulamara;Ameur Soukhal

  • Affiliations:
  • United Institute of Informatics Problems, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus;LORIA -UMR 7503 laboratory, Nancy University - INPL, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex, France;Laboratory of Computer Science, Team Scheduling and Control (ERL CNRS 6305), François Rabelais University of Tours, Tours, France

  • Venue:
  • ISCO'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Combinatorial Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We study a scheduling problem, in which two agents compete to perform their jobs on the same serial batching machine. On this machine, jobs of the same batch start and complete simultaneously and the batch processing time is equal to the total processing time of its jobs. Each agent aims at minimizing a function which depends only on the completion times of its jobs. The problem is to find a schedule that minimizes the objective function of one agent, subject to the objective function of the other agent does not exceed a given threshold Q. Polynomial and pseudo-polynomial time algorithms are derived for settings with various combinations of the objective functions.