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Scheduling problems in master-slave model

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  • Joseph Leung
  • Hairong Zhao

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We consider scheduling problems in the master slave model, which was introduced by Sahni in 1996. The goal is to minimize the makespan and the total completion time. It has been shown that the problem of minimizing makespan is NP-hard. Sahni and Vairaktarakis developed some approximation algorithms to generate schedules whose makespan is at most constant times the optimal. In this paper, we show that the problem of minimizing total completion time is NP-hard in the strong sense. Then we develop algorithms to generate schedules whose total completion time and makespan are both bounded by some constants times their optimal values. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2008

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  • Joseph Leung & Hairong Zhao, 2008. "Scheduling problems in master-slave model," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 159(1), pages 215-231, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:annopr:v:159:y:2008:i:1:p:215-231:10.1007/s10479-007-0271-4
    DOI: 10.1007/s10479-007-0271-4
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