TY - JOUR A1 - Benmansour, Rachid A1 - Braun, Oliver T1 - On the minimum number of resources for a perfect schedule T2 - Central European Journal of Operations Research N2 - In the single-processor scheduling problem with time restrictions there is one main processor and B resources that are used to execute the jobs. A perfect schedule has no idle times or gaps on the main processor and the makespan is therefore equal to the sum of the processing times. In general, more resources result in smaller makespans, and as it is in practical applications often more economic not to mobilize resources that will be unnecessary and expensive, we investigate in this paper the problem to find the smallest number B of resources that make a perfect schedule possible. We show that the decision version of this problem is NP-complete, derive new structural properties of perfect schedules, and we describe a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MIP) formulation to solve the problem. A large number of computational tests show that (for our randomly chosen problem instances) only B=3 or B=4 resources are sufficient for a perfect schedule. KW - Lineare Optimierung KW - minimizing the number of resources KW - perfect schedule KW - single-processor scheduling KW - mixed integer linear programming Y1 - 2022 UR - https://hst.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/114 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:tr5-1147 VL - 2022 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - Springer Nature ER -