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Semi-online Machine Covering on Two Uniform Machines with Known Total Size

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This paper investigates semi-online scheduling problem with known total size on two uniform machines for maximizing the minimum machine completion time. Lower bounds and optimal algorithms for every s≥1 are given, where s is the speed ratio of two machines. Both the overall competitive ratio and the competitive ratio for are strictly smaller than those of the optimal algorithms of the corresponding semi-online scheduling problem with known optimal value. It indicates that two related semi-online problems are different.

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

    Z. Y. Tan

  2. Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang Forestry University, Hangzhou, 311300, P. R. China

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Tan, Z.Y., Cao, S.J. Semi-online Machine Covering on Two Uniform Machines with Known Total Size. Computing 78, 369–378 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-006-0187-x

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