Abstract

We study the problem of scheduling n independent weighted jobs on a constant number of unrelated parallel machines so as to minimize the weighted sum of job completion times Rm∣∣∑wjCj. We present an O(n log n) time approximation scheme for the non-preemptive case of this problem. Notice that when the number of machines is not a constant (i.e. R∣∣∑wjCj) then no PTAS is possible, unless =. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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