| Article ID: | iaor19951663 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 46 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 128 |
| End Page Number: | 132 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1995 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Alidaee B., Rosa D. |
This note deals with a one-machine scheduling problem to minimize the sum of the total earliness and total tardiness penalties with respect to a common due date, which is a decision variable. It shows that the V-shaped property holds for a general case. This result is also true if the common due date is a prespecified value.