In 1972 Joel Shwimer published some interesting research "on the n-job, one-machine, sequence-independent scheduling problem with tardiness penalties ... where the goal is to minimize the total penalty costs resulting from the tardiness of the jobs" (Shwimer, J. 1972. On the n-job, one-machine,...

The main purpose of this paper is to delineate an algorithm for fractional programming with nonlinear as well as linear terms in the numerator and denominator. The algorithm presented is based on a theorem by Jagannathan (Jagannathan, R. 1966. On some properties of programming problems in...