A note on proving the strong NP-hardness of a scheduling problem with position dependent job processing times

Abstract

In this paper, we show that the strong NP-hardness proof of the single machine makespan minimization problem with ready times and job processing times described by a non-increasing power function dependent on a job position in a sequence presented in Bachman and Janiak (J Oper Res Soc 55:257-264, 2004) is incorrect. Namely, the applied transformation from 3- Partition problem to the considered scheduling problem is polynomial not pseudopolynomial. Thus, the related problem is NP-hard, but it is not proved to be strongly NP-hard. © 2012 The Author(s).