Scheduling about an unrestricted common due window with arbitrary earliness/tardiness penalty rates
IIE TRANSACTIONS, vol.29, no.11, pp.1001-1006, 1997 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 29 Issue: 11
- Publication Date: 1997
- Doi Number: 10.1080/07408179708966418
- Journal Name: IIE TRANSACTIONS
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.1001-1006
- Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
We consider the NP-hard problem of scheduling jobs on a single machine about an unrestricted due window to minimize total weighted earliness and tardiness cost. Each job has an earliness penalty rate and a tardiness penalty rate that are allowed to be arbitrary. Earliness or tardiness cost is assessed when a job completes outside the due window, which may be an instant in time or a time increment defining acceptable job completion. In this paper we present properties that characterize the structure of an optimal schedule, present a lower bound, propose a two-step branch and bound algorithm, and report results from a computational experiment. We rnd that optimal solutions can be quickly obtained for medium-sized problem instances.