This paper is concerned with the study of the constant due-date assignment policy in a dynamic job shop. Assuming that production times are randomly distributed, each job has a penalty cost that is some non-linear function of its due-date and its actual completion time. The due date is found by...

We study the problem of controlling the arrivals to a single-server queue with general interarrival-time distribution and exponential service-time distribution (a GI/M/1 system). Control is exercised by accepting or rejecting arriving customers or by charging entering customers a toll or...