Scheduling in switching networks with set-up delays

Journal of Combinatorial Optimization

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-57

  Afrati, Foto ^a   Aslanidis, Timos ^a   Bampis, Evripidis ^b   Milis, Ioannis ^c  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

^c ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Approximation algorithms; Scheduling; Set up delays; Switching networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING; SWITCHING NETWORKS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHM; BIPARTITE GRAPH; NP-HARD; SET-UP DELAYS;

COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS;

EID: 17444428663     PISSN: 13826905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10878-005-5483-4     Document Type: Article

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