| Article ID: | iaor20052158 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 175 |
| End Page Number: | 179 |
| Publication Date: | May 2000 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Koulamas Christos, Kyparisis George J. |
We consider the uniform parallel machine scheduling problem with the objective of minimizing maximum lateness. We show that an extension of the earliest due date rule to a uniform parallel machine setting yields a maximum lateness value which does not exceed the optimal value by more than