Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Recalde Diego Author-Name: Rutten Cyriel Author-Name: Schuurman Petra Author-Name: Vredeveld Tjark Author-workplace-name: METEOR Title: Local search performance guarantees for restricted related parallel machine scheduling Abstract: We consider the problem of minimizing the makespan on restricted related parallel machines. In restricted machine scheduling each job is only allowed to be scheduled on a subset of machines. We study the worst-case behavior of local search algorithms. In particular, we analyze the quality of local optima with respect to the jump, swap, push and lexicographical jump neighborhood. Keywords: operations research and management science; Series: Research Memoranda Creation-Date: 2009 Number: 061 File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:867ae0ae-bf66-4a4e-b008-36a01ade612e/datastreams/ASSET1/content File-Format: application/pdf File-Size: 475861 Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:2009061