Scheduling on parallel identical machines to minimise the total weighted tardiness Online publication date: Thu, 18-Jun-2009
by Nizar Souayah, Imed Kacem, Mohamed Haouari, Chengbin Chu
International Journal of Advanced Operations Management (IJAOM), Vol. 1, No. 1, 2009
Abstract: This paper considers the problem of scheduling n independent jobs on m identical parallel machines to minimise the total weighted tardiness. We propose several lower bounds and upper bounds. These bounding procedures are used in a new branch-and-bound (BAB) algorithm. We also propose a branch-and-cut algorithm which we compare with the branch-and-bound algorithm. Computational experiments are performed on a large set of instances and the obtained results show the effectiveness of our method.
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