Operations Research Transactions ›› 2024, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (4): 18-28.doi: 10.15960/j.cnki.issn.1007-6093.2024.04.002

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Research on the NDP-constraint online scheduling of jobs have agreeable processing times and delivery times

Wenjie LI1,*(), Zhihui DU1, Menglong SU1   

  1. 1. School of Mathematical Sciences, Luoyang Normal University, Luoyang 471934, Henan, China
  • Received:2022-03-30 Online:2024-12-15 Published:2024-12-20
  • Contact: Wenjie LI E-mail:liwenjie0521@163.com

Abstract:

This paper studies the single-machine online schedule under the NDP-constraint to minimize the maximum delivery completion time. Here "NDP-constraint" means that the idle machine must schedule the available jobs at any time, i.e., the available jobs cannot be delayed for processing. In this paper, we study the restricted version in which the jobs have agreeable processing times and delivery times (if $p_{i}\geq p_{j}$, then $p_{i}\geq p_{j}$). we first present a lower bound of 4/3 and then design an online algorithm with the competitive ratio of 1.382.

Key words: online scheduling, online algorithm, NDP-constraint, agreeable, delivery completion time

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