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Necessary optimality conditions for priority policies in stochastic weighted flowtime scheduling problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Thomas Kämpke*
Affiliation:
Universität Passau
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Postal address: Lehrstuhl für Informatik und OR, Universität Passau, Innstrasse 27, 8390 Passau, West Germany.
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Abstract

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Conditions implied by the optimality of static priority policies in a special class of stochastic scheduling problems will be derived.

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Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1987 

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