10-17
Measures of Problem Uncertainty for Total Weighted Flow Time Scheduling on a Single Machine
by Sotskov, Y.N.; Werner, F.; Lai, T.-C.; Egorova, N.G.
Preprint series: 10-17, Preprints
- MSC:
- 90B35 Scheduling theory, See also {68M20}
- 49K40 Sensitivity of optimal solutions in the presence of perturbations
Abstract: A single-machine scheduling problem is investigated under the assumption that the processing time of a job can take any real value from a given closed interval. The criterion is to minimize the total weighted completion time for a set of given jobs. As a measure of uncertainty for such a scheduling problem, it is reasonable to consider the cardinality of a minimal dominant set of job permutations containing an optimal permutation for each possible realization of the job processing times. We show that a minimal dominant set may be uniquely determined and demonstrate how to select a suitable solution method for the individual problem using the value of an uncertainty measure.
Keywords: Single-machine scheduling; Total weighted flow time; Uncertain processing times; Measure of uncertainty
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