Letter to the Editor—A Proof of the Optimality of the Shortest Remaining Processing Time Discipline

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DOI10.1287/opre.16.3.687zbMath0237.60039OpenAlexW2028301248MaRDI QIDQ5647712

Linus Schrage

Publication date: 1968

Published in: Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.16.3.687




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