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A two-agent single-machine scheduling problem with late work criteria

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This paper addresses a two-agent scheduling problem where the objective is to minimize the total late work of the first agent, with the restriction that the maximum lateness of the second agent cannot exceed a given value. Two pseudo-polynomial dynamic programming algorithms are presented to find the optimal solutions for small-scale problem instances. For medium- to large-scale problem instances, a branch-and-bound algorithm incorporating the implementation of a lower bounding procedure, some dominance rules and a Tabu Search-based solution initialization, is developed to yield the optimal solution. Computational experiments are designed to examine the efficiency of the proposed algorithms and the impacts of all the relative parameters.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the Editor, Associate Editor, and anonymous referees for their helpful comments on the earlier version of our paper. This paper was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71501024); in part by the Ministry of Science Technology of Taiwan (Nos. NSC 102-2221-E-035-070-MY3, MOST 103-2410- H- 035- 022- MY2), and by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant DUT15QY32.

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  1. School of Management Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116023, China

    Du-Juan Wang

  2. Department of Business Administration, Graduate Institute of Management, Providence University, Shalu, Taichung, Taiwan

    Chao-Chung Kang

  3. Department of Industrial Engineering and System Management, Feng-Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Yau-Ren Shiau

  4. Department of Statistics, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Chin-Chia Wu

  5. Department of Business Administration, Kang Ning University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Peng-Hsiang Hsu

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Wang, DJ., Kang, CC., Shiau, YR. et al. A two-agent single-machine scheduling problem with late work criteria. Soft Comput 21, 2015–2033 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-015-1900-5

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