| Article ID: | iaor19991793 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 77 |
| End Page Number: | 80 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1997 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Ghosh Jay B., Gupta Jatinder N.D. |
We address the single-machine batch scheduling problem which arises when there are job families and setup requirements exist between these families; our objective is to minimize the maximum lateness. As our main result, we give an improved dynamic program for the solution of the problem.