Webster, Scott - In: Management Science 38 (1992) 1, pp. 124-136
In 1964, Eastman, Even, and Isaacs (EEI) presented a polynomial time lower bound for the NP-hard problem of scheduling n jobs on m available and identical processors to minimize weighted flow time. A general bound, of which the EEI bound is a special case, is proposed. Four new bounds for the...