Strong uncertainties is a key challenge for the application of scheduling algorithms in real-world production environments, since the optimized schedule at a time often turns to be deteriorated or even infeasible during its execution due to a large majority of unexpected events. This paper...

In a supply chain, a manufacturer receives jobs from suppliers at distinct time points, and produces and delivers final products to customers in batches. The manufacturer can be modeled as a single machine in the supply chain and the problem can thus be modelled as minimizing the sum of weighted...