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An Experimental Investigation Of A New Priority Index For Jobs With Due Dates, Lewis A. Litteral, J. Frank Rudisill
An Experimental Investigation Of A New Priority Index For Jobs With Due Dates, Lewis A. Litteral, J. Frank Rudisill
Robins School of Business White Paper Series, 1980-2022
This paper describes an extension of the critical ratio procedure that is used to assign priorities to jobs that are waiting to be processed on a set of machines. The extended procedure is compared to the conventional procedure in a flow shop setting using a set of test problems. Several measures of schedule performance that are related to job due dates are considered.