This paper investigates single machine scheduling problems with release time and random processing time, where the release time can be either deterministic or random. The objective is to determine a scheduling sequence that performs well in terms of out-of-sample performance. To achieve this, we...

Prepositioning relief network is an effective strategy to mitigate the impact of natural disasters and public health emergencies, such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, designing a proper network is challenging due to limited information and, more importantly, the spatially correlated...