Approximability results for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem with a single type of resourcesстатья
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Аннотация:In this paper, we consider the well-known resource-constrained project scheduling
problem. We give some arguments that already a special case of this problem with a
single type of resources is not approximable in polynomial time with an approximation ratio
bounded by a constant. We prove that there exist instances for which the optimal makespan
values for the non-preemptive and the preemptive problems have a ratio of O(log n), where
n is the number of jobs. This means that there exist instances for which the lower bound of
Mingozzi et al. has a bad relative error of O(log n), and the calculation of this bound is an
NP-hard problem. In addition, we give a proof that there exists a type of instances for which
known approximation algorithms with polynomial time complexity have an approximation
ratio of at least equal to O(
√
n), and known lower bounds have a relative error of at least
equal to O(log n). This type of instances corresponds to the single machine parallel-batch
scheduling problem 1|p − batch, b=∞|Cmax.