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Minimizing total completion time in single-machine scheduling with convex resource consumption and job rejection

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: We investigate a family of single-machine scheduling problems that combine convex resource consumption with job rejection, where the performance measure is the total completion time of the accepted jobs. Across four natural variants-distinguished by whether the resource consumption cost and rejection cost appear in the objective or as budget constraints-we analyze their computational complexity and develop efficient algorithms. We show that one variant is polynomially solvable, two variants are weakly NP-hard but admit fully polynomial-time approximation schemes (FPTASs), and the remaining variant admits an FPTAS while its exact complexity remains open.

Source: Theoretical Computer Science

DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2025.115708

Authors: Byung-Cheon Choi, Myoung-Ju Park

Institutions: Chungnam National University, Seoul National University

Language: English

Topic: Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms

Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,880

Funder: Seoul National University