On the parameterized tractability of the just-in-time flow-shop scheduling problem

DOI10.1007/S10951-019-00617-7zbMATH Open1432.90058arXiv1709.04169OpenAlexW2967401912WikidataQ127362397 ScholiaQ127362397MaRDI QIDQ2294891FDOQ2294891

Authors: Danny Hermelin, Dvir Shabtay, Nimrod Talmon 

Publication date: 12 February 2020

Published in: Journal of Scheduling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Since its development in the early 90's, parameterized complexity has been widely used to analyze the tractability of many NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems with respect to various types of problem parameters. While the generic nature of the framework allows the analysis of any combinatorial problem, the main focus along the years was on analyzing graph problems. In this paper we diverge from this trend by studying the parameterized complexity of Just-In-Time (JIT) flow-shop scheduling problems. Our analysis focuses on the case where the number of due dates is considerably smaller than the number of jobs, and can thus be considered as a parameter. We prove that the two-machine problem is W[1]-hard with respect to this parameter, even if all processing times on the second machine are of unit length, while the problem is in XP even for a parameterized number of machines. We then move on to study the tractability of the problem when combining the different number of due dates with either the number of different weights or the number of different processing times on the first machine. We prove that in both cases the problem is fixed-parameter tractable for the two machine case, and is W[1]-hard for three or more machines.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04169

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zbMATH Keywords

schedulingfixed-parameter tractabilityjust-in-timeparameterized complexityflow-shop

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35) Performance evaluation, queueing, and scheduling in the context of computer systems (68M20)

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