On scheduling with ready-times, due dates and vacations

On scheduling with ready-times, due dates and vacations

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Article ID: iaor19921726
Country: United States
Volume: 39
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 53
End Page Number: 65
Publication Date: Feb 1992
Journal: Naval Research Logistics
Authors: ,
Keywords: vacations
Abstract:

A single machine sequencing problem is considered in which there are ready-time and due-date constraints on jobs and vacation constraints on the machine. Each vacation has fixed starting and finish time and no preemption is allowed for the jobs. The objective is to minimize maximum lateness. An intriguing feature of this formulation is that it allows sequencing in disconnected time windows. A relaxation of the problem is obtained by modeling the vacations as a set of jobs with flexible ready-times and artificial due-dates and a branch and bound algorithm is developed for the problem. In the algorithm, the search is not only guided by the bounds but also by a careful manipulation of the artificial due-dates. Consequently, while searching in the relaxed solution space, solutions of the original problem are implicitly enumerated. Computational results indicate that the algorithm can satisfactorily solve problems with multiple vacations.

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