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A Lower Bound for the Weighted Completion Time Variance Problem

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  • Rabia Nessah

    (IÉSEG School of Management, (LEM-CNRS))

  • Chengbin Chu

    (Laboratoire Génie Industriel, École Centrale Paris)

Abstract

We consider a single machine scheduling problem to minimize the weighted completion time variance. This problem is known to be NP-hard in the strong sense. We propose a lower bound based on splitting of jobs and the Viswanathkumar and Srinivasan procedure and a heuristic. The test on more than 2000 instances shows that this lower bound is very tight.

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  • Rabia Nessah & Chengbin Chu, 2008. "A Lower Bound for the Weighted Completion Time Variance Problem," Working Papers 2008-ECO-16, IESEG School of Management, revised May 2010.
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