Minimizing total completion time on parallel machines with deadline constraints

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-1-2003

Abstract

Consider n independent jobs and m identical machines in parallel. Job j has a processing time pj and a deadline d̄j. It must complete its processing before or at its deadline. All jobs are available for processing at time t = 0 and preemptions are allowed. A set of jobs is said to be feasible if there exists a schedule that meets all the deadlines; such a schedule is called a feasible schedule. Given a feasible set of jobs, our goal is to find a schedule that minimizes the total completion time Σ Cj. In the classical α |β| γ scheduling notation this problem is referred to as P |prmt, d̄j| Σ Cj. Lawler (Recent Results in the Theory of Machine Scheduling, in Mathematical Programming: The State of the Art, A. Bachem, M. Grötschel, and B. Korte, eds., Springer, Berlin, 1982, pp. 202-234) raised the question of whether or not the problem is NP-hard. In this paper we present a polynomial-time algorithm for every m ≥ 2, and we show that the more general problem with m unrelated machines, i.e., R |prmt, d̄j| Σ Cj, is strongly NP-hard.

Identifier

0344584873 (Scopus)

Publication Title

SIAM Journal on Computing

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1137/S0097539702406388

ISSN

00975397

First Page

1370

Last Page

1388

Issue

5

Volume

32

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