Improved 0/1-interchange scheduling

Consideration is given to the problem of nonpreemptively scheduling a set ofN independent tasks to a system ofM identical processors, with the objective to minimize the overall finish time. It is proved that the 0/1-INTERCHANGE scheduling heuristic can be modified, without increasing its time complexity fromO(N logM), so that its worst-case performance bound is reduced from 2 to 4/3 times optimal.