Oyen, Mark P. Van; Pichitlamken, Juta - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 2 (2000) 1, pp. 84-99
We characterize optimal policies for the problem of allocating a single server to a set of jobs from N families. Each job is an instance of demand for an item and is associated with a family, a holding cost rate, and a mean processing time. Set-up times are required to switch from one family to...