In this paper, we consider the single machine earliness/tardiness scheduling problem with di/erent release dates and no unforced idle time. The problem is decomposed into weighted earliness and weighted tardiness subproblems. Lower bounding procedures are proposed for each of these subproblems, and the lower bound for the original problem is the sum of the lower bounds for the two subproblems. ...

One of the basic and significant problems that a shop or a factory manager encounters is a suitable scheduling and sequencing of jobs on machines. One type of scheduling problem is just-in-time scheduling. Motivated by just-intime manufacturing, we consider the multi-objective problem. These objectives minimize total weighted tardiness, earliness and minimize total flow time with fuzzy paramete...

This paper surveys the literature related to solving traditional unrelated parallel-machine scheduling problems. It compiles algorithms for the makespan, total weighted sum of completion times, maximum tardiness, total tardiness, total earliness and tardiness, and multiple criteria performance measures. The review of the existing algorithms is restricted to the deterministic problems without se...

This paper presents the optimal scheduling in a single machine by considering idle insert. The objective function is to minimize the sum of maximum earliness and tardiness. This scheduling problem can be applied in different production systems such as just in time (JIT) systems. Special case of common due date is presented and the associated optimal solution is reported. In general case of a si...

In this paper we address a multi-objective scheduling problem for unrelated parallel machines. In unrelated parallel systems, the processing cost/time of a given job on different machines may vary. The objective of scheduling is to simultaneously determine the job-machine assignment and job sequencing on each machine. In such a way the total cost of the schedule is minimized. The cost function ...

We study a scheduling problem with deteriorating jobs, i.e., jobs whose processing times are an increasing function of their start times. We consider the case of a single machine and linear job-independent deterioration. The problem is to determine an optimal combination of the due date and schedule so as to minimize the sum of due-date, earliness and tardiness penalties. We give an O(n logn) t...