This paper deals with the parallel-machine scheduling problem with the aim of minimizing the total (weighted) tardiness under the assumption of different release dates. This problem has been proven to be NP-hard. We introduce some new lower and upper bounds based on different approaches. We propose a branch-and-bound algorithm to solve the weighted and unweighted total tardiness. Computational experiments were performed on a large set of instances and the obtained results showed that our algorithms are efficient.
Keywords: scheduling, weighted tardiness, parallel machines, branch-and-boun
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Kacem, Imed; Souayah, Nizar; Haouari, Mohamed. Branch-and-bound algorithm for total weighted tardiness minimization on parallel machines under release dates assumptions. RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle, Volume 46 (2012) no. 2, pp. 125-147. doi : 10.1051/ro/2012010. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1051/ro/2012010/
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