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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Online algorithms to schedule a proportionate flexible flow shop of batching machines
Contributor:
Hertrich, Christoph;
Weiß, Christian;
Ackermann, Heiner;
Heydrich, Sandy;
Krumke, Sven O.
Published:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022
Published in:
Journal of Scheduling, 25 (2022) 6, Seite 643-657
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/s10951-022-00732-y
ISSN:
1094-6136;
1099-1425
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This paper is the first to consider online algorithms to schedule a proportionate flexible flow shop of batching machines (PFFB). The scheduling model is motivated by manufacturing processes of individualized medicaments, which are used in modern medicine to treat some serious illnesses. We provide two different online algorithms, proving also lower bounds for the offline problem to compute their competitive ratios. The first algorithm is an easy-to-implement, general local scheduling heuristic. It is 2-competitive for PFFBs with an arbitrary number of stages and for several natural scheduling objectives. We also show that for total/average flow time, no deterministic algorithm with better competitive ratio exists. For the special case with two stages and the makespan or total completion time objective, we describe an improved algorithm that achieves the best possible competitive ratio <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$\varphi =\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2}$$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
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