Fry, Timothy D.; Philipoom, Patrick R. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 9 (1989) 7, pp. 72-78
In job‐shop scheduling research, the shortest processing time despatching rule (SPT) has received considerable attention. Several truncated shortest processing time (SPT) despatching rules have been published in the literature. The motivation for such rules is that SPT despatching will...