Article ID: | iaor20053114 |
Country: | France |
Volume: | 35 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 165 |
End Page Number: | 187 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2001 |
Journal: | RAIRO Operations Research |
Authors: | Chrtienne Philippe |
Assume that n tasks must be processed by one machine in a fixed sequence. The processing time, the preferred starting time and the earliness and tardiness costs per time unit are known for each task. The problem is to allocate each task a starting time such that the total cost incurred by the early and tardy tasks is minimum. Garvey