Carriers are under increasing pressure to offset rising fuel charges with cost cutting or revenue generating schemes. One opportunity for cost reduction lies in asset management. This paper presents resource allocation scheduling models that can be used to assign truck loads to delivery times...

In this paper we consider the problem of scheduling n jobs on two identical parallel machines in order to minimise the mean squared deviation (MSD) of job completion times about a given common due date. When due dates are small and large deviations of job completion times from the due dates are...