Scheduling with assignable due dates, two competing agents and late work related criteria

Li, S-S and Sang, Y-W and Chen, R-X and Sterna, M and Kis, Tamás (2025) Scheduling with assignable due dates, two competing agents and late work related criteria. COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH, 182. ISSN 0305-0548 10.1016/j.cor.2025.107144

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Abstract

This paper investigates several scheduling problems on a single machine that exhibit three key features: (i) assignable due dates are considered, meaning that a predefined set of due dates is provided, and these due dates can be assigned to the jobs independently and arbitrarily; (ii) two competing agents are involved, with jobs divided into two disjoint sets, each owned by one agent; and (iii) each agent's objective is to minimize a specific late work-related criterion. Specifically, the goal is to determine a due date assignment and a feasible schedule that minimizes the weighted sum of the selected scheduling criteria for both agents. For the first time, we integrate two-agent scheduling, assignable due dates, and late work-related criteria. We develop pseudo-polynomial-time dynamic programming algorithms to address problems where one agent's criterion is the total late work, while the other agent's criterion is either the total late work, total tardiness, or weighted number of tardy jobs. Moreover, we propose polynomial-time algorithms to tackle various special cases of these related problems. © 2025 Elsevier Ltd

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Scheduling; SCHEDULING PROBLEM; dynamic programming; Key feature; Scheduling algorithms; Disjoint sets; Job shop scheduling; Work-related; Single machine; Single- machines; Late work; Late work; Due dates; Two agents; Predefined sets; Assignable due dates; Two-agent; Assignable due dates;
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics and Computer Science > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science / számítástechnika, számítógéptudomány
Divisions: Research Laboratory on Engineering & Management Intelligence
SWORD Depositor: MTMT Injector
Depositing User: MTMT Injector
Date Deposited: 07 Jul 2025 04:45
Last Modified: 07 Jul 2025 04:45
URI: https://eprints.sztaki.hu/id/eprint/10920

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