We study a class of scheduling problems involving the maximum lateness criterion and an element of batching. For all the problems that we examine, algorithms appear in the literature which consist of a sorting step to determine an optimal job sequence, followed by a dynamic programming step...

We study a class of scheduling problems involving the maximum lateness criterion and an element of batching. For all the problems that we examine, algorithms appear in the literature which consist of a sorting step to determine an optimal job sequence, followed by a dynamic programming step...

We study a class of scheduling problems involving the maximum lateness criterion and an element of batching. For all the problems that we examine, algorithms appear in the literature which consist of a sorting step to determine an optimal job sequence, followed by a dynamic programming step...

We study a class of scheduling problems involving the maximumlateness criterion and an element of batching. For all the problemsthat we examine, algorithms appear in the literature which consistof a sorting step to determine an optimal job sequence, followedby a dynamic programming step which...

A constraint satisfaction problem requires a value, selected from a given finite domain, to be assigned to each variable in the problem, so that all constraints relating the variables are satisfied. Many combinatorial problems in operational research, such as schedulling and timetabling, can be...

In the bounded knapsack problem with setups there are a limited number of copies of each item and the inclusion of an item in the knapsack requires a fixed setup capacity. Analysis of special cases of the problem allows us to derive the borderline between hard and easy problems. We develop a...