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Single Machine Scheduling with an Operator Non-availability Period to Minimize Total Completion Time

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Frontiers in Algorithmics and Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management

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This paper considers the single machine scheduling problem with an operator non-availability period. The operator non-availability period is an open time interval in which a job may neither start nor complete. The objective is to minimize the total completion time. The problem is NP-hard. We present an algorithm with a tight worst-case ratio of 20/17.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, State Key Lab of CAD & CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P.R. China

    Yong Chen, An Zhang & Zhiyi Tan

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, 305 North University Street, 47907, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Mikhail Atallah

  2. Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, 60616, Chicago, IL, USA

    Xiang-Yang Li

  3. Department of Computer Science, Montana State University, EPS 357, 59717, Bozeman, MT, USA

    Binhai Zhu

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Chen, Y., Zhang, A., Tan, Z. (2011). Single Machine Scheduling with an Operator Non-availability Period to Minimize Total Completion Time. In: Atallah, M., Li, XY., Zhu, B. (eds) Frontiers in Algorithmics and Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6681. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21204-8_24

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