Article ID: | iaor1991987 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 18 |
Start Page Number: | 125 |
End Page Number: | 127 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1991 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Dickman B., Wilamowsky Y., Epstein S. |
T.C.E. Cheng recently presented an interesting variation of the common due-date scheduling problem. He considered the situation where jobs that only marginally miss the common due-date are not penalized. His major conclusion is a sufficient but not necessary requirement for optimality. The authors prove that alternate optima exist.