Scheduling with Testing: Competitive Algorithms for Minimizing the Total Weighted Completion Time in the Adversarial Model
摘要
We establish the first theoretical results for scheduling with testing on a single machine and on identical parallel machines to minimize the total weighted completion time in the adversarial model. We present a deterministic algorithm with a competitive ratio of 2.3166 for single-machine scheduling and show that a randomized variant has a competitive ratio of 2.1523. These algorithms, combined with list scheduling, yield competitive ratios of 2.7763 and 2.5110 for identical parallel machine scheduling.