A PTAS for semiconductor burn-in scheduling

Journal of Combinatorial Optimization

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-17

  Deng, Xiaotie ^a   Feng, Haodi ^b   Li, Guojun ^b,c   Shi, Benyun ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

Author keywords

Approximation algorithm; Batch processing; Geometric rounding; Release date; Time stretching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; THEOREM PROVING;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHM; BATCH PROCESSING SYSTEM; GEOMETRIC ROUNDING; RELEASE RATE; TIME STRETCHING;

POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

EID: 17444428664     PISSN: 13826905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10878-005-5480-7     Document Type: Article

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