An improved approximation scheme for scheduling a maintenance and proportional deteriorating jobs
Résumé
In this paper, we re-visit the problem of scheduling a set of proportional deteriorating non-resumable jobs on a single machine subject to maintenance. The maintenance has to be started prior to a given deadline. The jobs as well as the maintenance are to be scheduled so that to minimize the total completion time. For this problem we propose a new dynamic programming algorithm and a faster fully polynomial time approximation scheme improving a recent result by Luo and Chen [JIMO (2012), 8:2, 271-283].