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Polyhedral Reformulation of a Scheduling Problem And Related Theoretical Results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2008

Jean Damay ,
Alain Quilliot  and
Eric Sanlaville
Jean Damay
Affiliation:
LIMOS, UMR CNRS 6158, Bât ISIMA, Université Blaise Pascal, Campus des Cézeaux, BP 125, 63173 Aubière, France; [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Alain Quilliot
Affiliation:
LIMOS, UMR CNRS 6158, Bât ISIMA, Université Blaise Pascal, Campus des Cézeaux, BP 125, 63173 Aubière, France; [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Eric Sanlaville
Affiliation:
LIMOS, UMR CNRS 6158, Bât ISIMA, Université Blaise Pascal, Campus des Cézeaux, BP 125, 63173 Aubière, France; [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
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Abstract


We deal here with a scheduling problem GPPCSP (Generalized Parallelism and Preemption Constrained Scheduling Problem) which is an extension of both the well-known Resource Constrained Scheduling Problem and the Scheduling Problem with Disjunctive Constraints. We first propose a reformulation of GPPCSP: according to it, solving GPPCSP means finding a vertex of the Feasible Vertex Subset of an Antichain Polyhedron. Next, we state several theoretical results related to this reformulation process and to structural properties of this specific Feasible Vertex Subset (connectivity, ...). We end by focusing on the preemptive case of GPPCSP and by identifying specific instances of GPPCSP which are such that any vertex of the related Antichain Polyhedron may be projected on its related Feasible Vertex Subset without any deterioration of the makespan. For such an instance, the GPPCSP problem may be solved in a simple way through linear programming.

Keywords

Partially ordered setshypergraphslinear programmingpolyhedramultiprocessor schedulingresource constrained projectscheduling problem.
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Research Article
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RAIRO - Operations Research , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , July 2008 , pp. 325 - 359
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© EDP Sciences, ROADEF, SMAI, 2008

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