Scheduling jobs with stochastic processing times and due dates to minimize total tardiness

Huang Chueng-Chiu, Gideon Weiss

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Abstract

We study the optimality of expected earliest due date (EEDD) sequencing of n jobs on M parallel identical machines, to minimize the total tardiness. The processing times of the jobs are assumed to be identically distributed with distribution function F ( x ), and the due date of job j, Dj, j = 1,…, n is assumed to be distributed with distribution function Gj. We give stochastic comparisons of the objective function when the due dates are comparable in different stochastic order relations. For a single processor, the results are extended to the case when the processing times are not identically distributed, but are compatible with the due dates.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)529-541
Number of pages13
JournalStochastic Models
Volume8
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1992
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was supported by NSF grants ECS 8712798 and DDM 8914863. We wish to thank an anonymous referee for valuable comments and extensions. The results in Section 5 are based on that referee's suggestions.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Modeling and Simulation

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