This paper investigates the coordinated scheduling problem of production and transportation in a two-stage supply chain, where the actual job processing time is a linear function of its starting time. During the production stage the jobs are first processed in serial batches on a bounded serial...

With the aim of modeling multiple attribute group decision analysis problems with group consensus (GC) requirements, a GC based evidential reasoning approach and further an attribute weight based feedback model are sequentially developed based on an evidential reasoning (ER) approach. In real...

In an evidential reasoning context, a group consensus (GC) based approach can model multiple attributive group decision analysis problems with GC requirements. The predefined GC is reached through several rounds of group analysis and discussion (GAD) in the approach. However, the GAD with no...

We consider parallel machine scheduling problems where the processing of the jobs on the machines involves two types of objectives. The first type is one of two classical objective functions in scheduling theory: either the total completion time or the makespan. The second type involves an...

This paper focuses on single machine scheduling subject to inventory constraints. Jobs either add items to an inventory or remove items from that inventory. Jobs that have to remove items cannot be processed if the required number of items is not available. We consider scheduling problems on a...