A rescheduling heuristic for the single machine total tardiness problem

In this paper, we propose a rescheduling heuristic for scheduling N jobs on a single machine in order to minimise total tardiness. The heuristic is of the interchange type and constructs a schedule from the modified due date (MDD) schedule. Unlike most interchange heuristics that consider interchang...

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Main Author: JC Nyirenda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA) 2006-06-01
Series:ORiON
Online Access:http://orion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/34