Mallor, Fermin; Guardiola, Ivan G. - In: International Journal of Production Economics 150 (2014) C, pp. 225-238
This paper highlights a new dispatching rule based on an index developed from a modified two parameter Weibull … probability distribution function. This new dispatching rule is named the Weibull Urgency Index (WUI), which uses the capability … heuristic function and it is compared to the well established Apparent Tardiness Cost (ATC) dispatching rule through a …