Keyun Cheng

Reading Notes: MP’1990 Scheduling Unrelated Parallel Machines

Title: Approximation Algorithms for Scheduling Unrelated Parallel Machines

Conference (Mathematical Programming’1990): Link

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This paper (1) presents a 2-approximation algorithms for scheduling unrelated parallel machines problem, which serves as an important baseline for future works; (2) Proofs that there does not exist polynomial 3/2-approximation algorithms

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