The main objective of this paper is to stimulate interest in stability analysis for scheduling problems. In spite of impressive theoretical results in sequencing and scheduling, up to now the implementation of scheduling algorithms with a rather deep mathematical background in production...

The main objective of this paper is to stimulate interest in stability analysis for scheduling problems. In spite of impressive theoretical results in sequencing and scheduling, up to now the implementation of scheduling algorithms with a rather deep mathematical background in production...

This paper is devoted to the calculation of the stability radius of an optimal schedule for a job shop problem, when the objective is to minimize mean or maximum flow times. The approach used may be regarded as an a posteriori analysis, in which an optimal schedule has already been constructed...