In this paper, we present a novel O(N) algorithm to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs with unit processing times, integer ready times and deadlines, and M homogeneous parallel machines, where N is the number of jobs to be scheduled. wi is the weight re ecting job i's importance, and Ui is 1 if job i is tardy and 0 otherwise, so P wiUi is the measure of performance. (In standard notatio...

The growth in demand for semiconductors has been accompanied by intense competition between semiconductor manufacturers to satisfy customer on-time delivery needs. This paper is motivated by scheduling the wafer fabrication phase of 300-mm semiconductor manufacturing, as it contains both batch processing operations and multiple customer orders being grouped into production jobs. The resulting m...

In this paper, we present a novel O(N) algorithm to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs with unit processing times, integer ready times and deadlines, and M homogeneous parallel machines, where N is the number of jobs to be scheduled. wi is the weight re ecting job i's importance, and Ui is 1 if job i is tardy and 0 otherwise, so P wiUi is the measure of performance. (In standard notatio...

We address the problem of scheduling n jobs on a batching machine to minimize regular scheduling criteria that are non-decreasing in the job completion times. A batching machine is a machine that can handle up to b jobs simultaneously. The jobs that are processed together form a batch, and all jobs in a batch start and complete at the same time. The processing time of a batch is equal to the la...

In single machine scheduling with release dates and job delivery, jobs are processed on a single machine and then delivered by a capacitated vehicle to a single customer. Only one vehicle is employed to deliver these jobs. The vehicle can deliver at most c jobs at a shipment. The delivery completion time of a job is defined as the time at which the delivery batch containing the job is delivered...

Supply chain scheduling is a new emerging area of research. We study batch arrival scheduling problems at the manufacturer in a multi-level customer-centric supply chain, where promised job due dates are considered constraints which must be satisfied. We analyze the tradeoff between inventory holding costs and batch delivery costs. We show that the problems are closely related to batch scheduli...

Keywords: Single-machine sequencing Weighted number of tardy jobs Due date assignment a b s t r a c t The single-machine due date assignment problem with the weighted number of tardy jobs objective, (the TWNTD problem), and its generalization with resource allocation decisions and controllable job processing times have been solved in O(n 4) time by formulating and solving a series of assignment...

We consider unbounded parallel batch scheduling with job delivery to minimize makespan. When the jobs have identical size, we provide a polynomial-time algorithm. When the jobs have non-identical sizes, we provide a heuristic with a worst-case performance ratio 7/4. c © 2008 Published by Elsevier B.V.

In this paper, we address a single-machine scheduling problem with due dates and batch setup times to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs. We give a pseudo-polynomial dynamic program and a fully-polynomial approximation scheme for the case where the due dates are uniform within a family. 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

This paper deals with a single-machine scheduling problem in which jobs are released in different points in time but delivered to customers in batches. A due window is associated with each job. The objective is to schedule the jobs, to form them into batches and to decide the delivery date of each batch so as to minimize the sum of earliness, tardiness, holding, and delivery costs. A mathematic...