Abstract
We extend a classical common due-window assignment problem to a setting of parallel uniform machines. Jobs are assumed to have identical processing times. The objective is minimum earliness, tardiness, due-window starting time, and due-window size. We focus on the case of two machines. Despite the many (12) candidate schedules for optimality, an efficient constant time solution is introduced.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 712-719 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | European Journal of Operational Research |
Volume | 201 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 16 Mar 2010 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank two anonymous referees for their very valuable comments. This paper was supported in part by The Recanati Fund of The School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Keywords
- Due-window
- Earliness
- Scheduling
- Tardiness
- Uniform machines