Chinese Quarterly Journal of Mathematics ›› 2015, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (3): 330-338.doi: 10.13371/j.cnki.chin.q.j.m.2015.03.003

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Scheduling and Outsourcing with Multiple Customers

  

  1. 1. School of Economics and Management, Beihang University2. School of Management, Qufu Normal University
  • Received:2013-04-07 Online:2015-09-30 Published:2020-11-20
  • About author:FENG Yan-ling(1987-), female, native of Jining, Shandong, M.S.D., a Ph.D. candidate of Beihang University, engages in management science and engineering.
  • Supported by:
    Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(71372007); Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2011AL017);

Abstract: In this paper, we study a new scheduling and outsourcing model with multiple customers in which jobs can be processed by either in-house machine or outsourcing machine.All processed jobs have to be delivered in batches to their respective customers and each shipment incurs a delivery cost as well as a fixed amount of time. We discuss three commonly used objective functions, analyze their complexity and solve them by dynamic programming algorithms. 

Key words: scheduling, outsourcing, dynamic programming, multiple customers

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