List scheduling in a parallel machine environment with precedence constraints and setup times

We present complexity results which have influence on the strength of list scheduling in a parallel machine environment where additional precedence constraints and sequence-dependent setup times are given and the makespan has to be minimized. We show that contrary to various other scheduling problems, in this environment a set of dominant schedules cannot be calculated efficiently with list scheduling techniques.

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