Lower Bounds for Scheduling on Identical Parallel Machines with Heads and Tails

Journal Article
Haouari, Mohamed . 2004
الوسوم: 
Scheduling, identical parallel machines, release dates, delivery times, makespan, lower bound
المجلة \ الصحيفة: 
Annals of Operations Research
رقم العدد: 
1-4
رقم الإصدار السنوي: 
129
الصفحات: 
187-204
مستخلص المنشور: 

In this paper, we investigate new lower bounds for the P|rj,qj|Cmax scheduling problem. A new bin packing based lower bound, as well as several new lifting procedures are derived for this strongly NP -hard problem. Extensive numerical experiments show that the proposed lower bounds consistently outperform the best existing ones.