The traveling salesman (or salesperson) problem, short TSP, is of strong interest to many researchers from mathematics, economics, and computer science. Manifold TSP variants occur in nearly every scientific field and application domain: e.g., engineering, physics, biology, life sciences, and...

We consider single-machine scheduling with a non-renewable resource. In this setting, we are given a set of jobs, each characterized by a processing time, a weight, and a resource requirement. At fixed points in time, certain amounts of the resource are made available to be consumed by the jobs....