• Title of article

    Jackson’s semi-preemptiveschedulingonasinglemachine

  • Author/Authors

    Anis Gharbi، نويسنده , , MohamedLabidi ، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    2082
  • To page
    2088
  • Abstract
    We proposeaneffectiveimprovementofthewell-knownJackson’spreemptiveschedulelowerbound for thesinglemachineschedulingproblemwithheadsandtails.Thesemi-preemptivescheduling concept roughlyconsistsinreducingthepreemptionimpactbyconstrainingsomeparticularjobparts to beprocessedinreducedtimeintervals.Theimpactofsemi-preemptiveschedulingistwofold:it yields alowerboundwhichdominatesthepreemptiveone,andenablesmoreeffectiveadjustmentsof the headsandtails.Ourexperimentalstudyrevealedthatsuitablyembeddingourprocedurewithin Carlier’salgorithmmakesfeasibletosolveallofthehardinstanceswhichcouldnotbesolvedbyits originalvariant.
  • Keywords
    Cell formation problem , Iteratively local search , Ant colony optimization , Metaheuristic
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Serial Year
    2010
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Record number

    927812