2010 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Universal Sequencing on a Single Machine
verfasst von : Leah Epstein, Asaf Levin, Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela, Nicole Megow, Julián Mestre, Martin Skutella, Leen Stougie
Erschienen in: Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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We consider scheduling on an unreliable machine that may experience unexpected changes in processing speed or even full breakdowns. We aim for a universal solution that performs well without adaptation for any possible machine behavior. For the objective of minimizing the total weighted completion time, we design a polynomial time deterministic algorithm that finds a universal scheduling sequence with a solution value within 4 times the value of an optimal clairvoyant algorithm that knows the disruptions in advance. A randomized version of this algorithm attains in expectation a ratio of
e
. We also show that both results are best possible among all universal solutions. As a direct consequence of our results, we answer affirmatively the question of whether a constant approximation algorithm exists for the offline version of the problem when machine unavailability periods are known in advance.
When jobs have individual release dates, the situation changes drastically. Even if all weights are equal, there are instances for which any universal solution is a factor of Ω(log
n
/ loglog
n
) worse than an optimal sequence. Motivated by this hardness, we study the special case when the processing time of each job is proportional to its weight. We present a non-trivial algorithm with a small constant performance guarantee.