| Article ID: | iaor1990940 |
| Country: | Canada |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 367 |
| End Page Number: | 374 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1989 |
| Journal: | Logistics and Transportation Review |
| Authors: | Alidaee Bahram |
Sequencing situations are considered in which a certain number of customers have to be served by a single server and each customer has a linear cost function. It is shown that total cost is a quadratic form of service times. The optimal order and Equal Gain Splitting (EGS) rule are analyzed by the symmetric matrix arising from the quadratic form. A formula to find the EGS division rule is given.