This paper deals with a realistic cyclic scheduling problem in the food industry environment in which parallel machines are considered to process perishable jobs with given release dates, due dates and deadlines. Jobs are subject to post-production shelf life limitation and must be delivered to...

This paper considers a batch delivery scheduling problem in which n independent and simultaneously available jobs are to be processed on m unrelated or uniform parallel machines. The jobs scheduled on the same machine are delivered in batches to customers and the delivery date of a batch equals...