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A Note on Stochastic Scheduling on a Single Machine Subject to Breakdown–The Preemptive Repeat Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Esther Frostig
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics University of Haifa Mount Carmel, Haifa 31999, Israel

Abstract

This paper considers scheduling n jobs on one machine to minimize the expected weighted flowtime and the number of late jobs. The processing times of the jobs are independent random variables. The machine is subject to failure and repair where the uptimes are exponentially distributed. We find the optimal policies for the preemptive repeat model.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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