Multitasking scheduling problem with a common due-window

We study multitasking scheduling and due-window assignment problems in a single machine, which can be found in various application domains.In this paper, we study two problems, the rst objective is minimise the earliness, tardiness, due-window starting time, and due-window size costs, the second objective is minmax common due-date with completion time penalty, then we provide polynomial time solutions. Finally, the experimental results show that the proposed methods are e ective.

A Note on Multimachine Scheduling with Weighted Early/Late Work Criteria and Common Due Date

In this note, we revisit two types of scheduling problem with weighted early/late work criteria and a common due date. For parallel identical machines environment, we present a dynamic programming approach running in pseudopolynomial time, to classify the considered problem into the set of binary NP-hard. We also propose an enumeration algorithm for comparison. For two-machine flow shop systems, we focus on a previous dynamic programming method, but with a more precise analysis, to improve the practical performance during its execution. For each model, we verify our studies through computational experiments, in which we show the advantages of our techniques, respectively.

Two-Agent Pareto-Scheduling of Minimizing Total Weighted Completion Time and Total Weighted Late Work

We investigate the Pareto-scheduling problem with two competing agents on a single machine to minimize the total weighted completion time of agent A’s jobs and the total weighted late work of agent B’s jobs, the B-jobs having a common due date. Since this problem is known to be NP-hard, we present two pseudo-polynomial-time exact algorithms to generate the Pareto frontier and an approximation algorithm to generate a (1+ϵ)-approximate Pareto frontier. In addition, some numerical tests are undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of our algorithms.