so i just want to confirm is this soln provides shortest average completion
time?

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Carl Barton <[email protected]>wrote:

> Correct me but isn't this just a process scheduling problem and your
> solution
> is a shortest processing time schedule?
>
> It's a well research problem and there's plenty of papers on this if you
> google.
>
>
> On 1 April 2011 13:14, snehal jain <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Suppose you are given a collection of n tasks that need to be
>> scheduled. With each task, you are given its duration. Specifically,
>> task i takes ti units of time to execute. Suppose with each task we
>> also have a release time ri, and that a task may not be started before
>> its release time. Furthermore, tasks may be preempted, in that a
>> scheduled task can be interrupted and later resumed, and this can
>> happen repeatedly. Design an algorithm that finds a schedule that
>> minimizes the average completion-time in this new situation.
>> My solution
>> Store thetasks in increasing order of their release time. And schedule
>> the tasks according to shortest remaining timefirst.
>>
>> any comments?
>>
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