The Constrained Minimum Weighted Sum of Job Completion Times Problem

Author(s):  
Asaf Levin ◽  
Gerhard J. Woeginger
1992 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 667-681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng-Shang Chang ◽  
Xiuli Chao ◽  
Michael Pinedo ◽  
Richard Weber

We consider scheduling problems with m machines in parallel and n jobs. The machines are subject to breakdown and repair. Jobs have exponentially distributed processing times and possibly random release dates. For cost functions that only depend on the set of uncompleted jobs at time t we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the LEPT rule to minimize the expected cost at all t within the class of preemptive policies. This encompasses results that are known for makespan, and provides new results for the work remaining at time t. An application is that if the cµ rule has the same priority assignment as the LEPT rule then it minimizes the expected weighted number of jobs in the system for all t. Given appropriate conditions, we also show that the cµ rule minimizes the expected value of other objective functions, such as weighted sum of job completion times, weighted number of late jobs, or weighted sum of job tardinesses, when jobs have a common random due date.


Author(s):  
Hanane Krim ◽  
Nicolas Zufferey ◽  
Jean-Yves Potvin ◽  
Rachid Benmansour ◽  
David Duvivier

AbstractWe consider in this work a bicriteria scheduling problem on two different parallel machines with a periodic preventive maintenance policy. The two objectives considered involve minimization of job rejection costs and weighted sum of completion times. They are handled through a lexicographic approach, due to a natural hierarchy among the two objectives in the applications considered. The main contributions of this paper are first to present a new problem relevant to practice, second, to develop a mixed-integer-linear-program model for the problem, and third, to introduce two generalizable tabu-search metaheuristics relying on different neighborhood structures and solution spaces. Computational results for 120 instances (generated from a real case) are reported to empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed metaheuristics.


1992 ◽  
Vol 29 (03) ◽  
pp. 667-681
Author(s):  
Cheng-Shang Chang ◽  
Xiuli Chao ◽  
Michael Pinedo ◽  
Richard Weber

We consider scheduling problems with m machines in parallel and n jobs. The machines are subject to breakdown and repair. Jobs have exponentially distributed processing times and possibly random release dates. For cost functions that only depend on the set of uncompleted jobs at time t we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the LEPT rule to minimize the expected cost at all t within the class of preemptive policies. This encompasses results that are known for makespan, and provides new results for the work remaining at time t. An application is that if the cµ rule has the same priority assignment as the LEPT rule then it minimizes the expected weighted number of jobs in the system for all t. Given appropriate conditions, we also show that the cµ rule minimizes the expected value of other objective functions, such as weighted sum of job completion times, weighted number of late jobs, or weighted sum of job tardinesses, when jobs have a common random due date.


1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Pinedo ◽  
Elias Rammouz

This paper considers a single machine and n jobs. The machine is subject to breakdown and repair. Job j has a weight wj, a random processing time Xj, and is available for processing from a random time Rj on. The jobs may be subject to precedence constraints. We are interested in optimal policies that minimize the following objective functions: (i) the weighted sum of the completion times; (ii) the weighted sum of an exponential function of the completion times; and (iii) the weighted number of late jobs having due dates.


2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (11) ◽  
pp. 3031-3040 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.C.E. Cheng ◽  
B.M.T. Lin ◽  
Y. Tian

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