Minimizing the Earliness and Tardiness Cost of a Sequence of Tasks on a Single Machine

Philippe Chrétienne

RAIRO - Operations Research (2010)

  • Volume: 35, Issue: 2, page 165-187
  • ISSN: 0399-0559

Abstract

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Assume that n tasks must be processed by one machine in a fixed sequence. The processing time, the preferred starting time and the earliness and tardiness costs per time unit are known for each task. The problem is to allocate each task a starting time such that the total cost incurred by the early and tardy tasks is minimum. Garey et al. have proposed a nice O(nlogn) algorithm for the special case of symmetric and task-independent costs. In this paper we first extend that algorithm to the case of asymmetric and task-independent cost without increasing its worst-case complexity. For the general case of asymmetric and task-dependent costs, we propose an O(n3logn) algorithm based on a strong dominance property that yields to model the scheduling problem as a minimum cost path in a valued directed acyclic graph.

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Chrétienne, Philippe. "Minimizing the Earliness and Tardiness Cost of a Sequence of Tasks on a Single Machine." RAIRO - Operations Research 35.2 (2010): 165-187. <http://eudml.org/doc/197824>.

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