The single machine scheduling problem with sum of completion times criterion (
SS) can be solved easily by the Shortest Processing Time (SPT) rule. In the case of significant uncertainty of the processing times, a robustness approach is appropriate. In this paper, we show that the robust version of the (
SS) problem is NP-complete even for very restricted cases. We present an algorithm for finding optimal solutions for the robust (
SS) problem using dynamic programming. We also provide two polynomial time heuristics and demonstrate their effectiveness.
robust optimization - machine scheduling - NP-completeness - heuristic