| Article ID: | iaor1997862 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 77 |
| End Page Number: | 83 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1995 |
| Journal: | Mathematical and Computer Modelling |
| Authors: | Roberts F.S. |
| Keywords: | measurement |
The paper considers a functional equation that arises in problems of scheduling with priorities and earliness/lateness penalties. It solves the equation and notes how it can be used to analyze the invariance of conclusions about optimality of a schedule if the scale used to measure priority is replaced by another acceptable scale.