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On the optimality of static priority policies in stochastic scheduling on parallel machines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Thomas Kämpke
Thomas Kämpke*
Affiliation:
Universität Passau
*
∗Postal address: Lehrstuhl für Informatik und Operations Research, Universität Passau, Postfach 2540, 8390 Passau, W. Germany.
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Abstract

n jobs are to be preemptively scheduled for processing on n machines. The machines may have differing speeds and the jobs have processing requirements which are distributed as independent exponential random variables with different means. Holding cost g(U) is incurred per unit time that the set of uncompleted jobs is U and it is desired to minimize the total expected holding cost which is incurred until all jobs are complete. We show that if g satisfies certain simple conditions then the optimal policy is one which takes the jobs in the order 1, 2, ···, n and assigns each uncompleted job in turn to the fastest available machine. In the special case in which the objective is to minimize the expected weighted flowtime, where there is a holding cost of wi while job i is incomplete, the sufficient condition is simply w1 ≧ … ≧ wn and λ1 w1 ≧ … ≧ λn wn.

Keywords

PREEMPTIVE AND ΝΟΝ-PREEMPTIVE SCHEDULINGEXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONMARKOVIAN COST FUNCTIONPRIORITY POLICIESMACHINE IDLENESS
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , June 1987 , pp. 430 - 448
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1987 

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Footnotes

The paper includes main results from the author's dissertation at the Technical University of Aachen, Germany, May 1985.

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