This paper is concerned with scheduling a number of jobs on multiple identical parallel machines to minimise job Completion Time Variance (CTV), which is a performance measure that emphasises providing uniform service to jobs. CTV minimisation is closely related to common due date problems,...

The paper investigates a problem faced by a make-to-order (MTO) firm that has the ability to reject or accept orders, and set prices and lead-times to influence demands. Inventory holding costs for early completed orders, tardiness costs for late delivery orders, order rejection costs,...