This paper studies inventory constraints in a machine scheduling environment. Jobs can add and remove items of different types to the inventory and from the inventory, respectively. Jobs removing items cannot be processed if the required amount of items is not available. We first have a look at...

This paper considers the single-machine scheduling problem, where job parameters are uncertain and the performance measure is to maximize the weighted number of just-in-time jobs, defined as jobs completed exactly on their due dates. Uncertainty is described through a finite set of well-defined...