This paper adresses job tardiness for non deterministic job shop scheduling. A comparative study shows that a GA consistently outperforms different priority rules regardless of the workload and the objective pursued.

Caplin & Leahy (1996) show that, when central bankers learn about theeconomy by observing its response to policy shock, cautious monetary policymay be ineffectual as private agents correctly anticipate that today's interestrate cuts are likely to be followed by future cuts. The central banker...