The value of holding orders in a pre-shop pool, prior to their release to the factory floor, is a somewhat controversial topic. This is especially true for make-to-order manufacturing systems, where, if capacity is fixed and exogenous due dates are inflexible, having orders wait in a preshop pool may cause the overall due date performance of the system to deteriorate. In such circumstances, sel...

Given a set J of jobs, where each job j is associated with release date rj , deadline dj and processing time pj , our goal is to schedule all jobs using the minimum possible number of machines. Scheduling a job j requires selecting an interval of length pj between its release date and deadline, and assigning it to a machine, with the restriction that each machine executes at most one job at any...

We consider the following on-line scheduling problem. We have to schedule n independent jobs, where n is unknown, on m uniform parallel machines so as to minimize the makespan; preemption is allowed. Each job becomes available at its release date, and this release date is not known beforehand; its processing requirement becomes known at its arrival. We show that if only a finite number of preem...

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