Scheduling jobs and maintenance activities on parallel machines

Earliness–tardiness minimization on a single machine to schedule preventive maintenance tasks: metaheuristic and exact methods

(2010) Maher Rebai et al.   JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING

Fast approximation algorithms to minimize a special weighted flow-time criterion on a single machine with a non-availability interval and release dates

(2009) Imed Kacem et al.   JOURNAL OF SCHEDULING

Approximation algorithms for single machine scheduling with one unavailability period

(2008) Imed Kacem et al.   4OR-A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research

Fully polynomial time approximation scheme for the weighted flow-time minimization on a single machine with a fixed non-availability interval

(2008) Imed Kacem et al.   COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Two simple constant ratio approximation algorithms for minimizing the total weighted completion time on a single machine with a fixed non-availability interval

(2008) Hans Kellerer et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

Identical parallel-machine scheduling under availability constraints to minimize the sum of completion times

(2008) Racem Mellouli et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

Approximation algorithm for the weighted flow-time minimization on a single machine with a fixed non-availability interval

(2007) Imed Kacem   COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Single-machine scheduling with an availability constraint to minimize the weighted sum of the completion times

(2006) Imed Kacem et al.   COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Worst-case analysis of the WSPT and MWSPT rules for single machine scheduling with one planned setup period

(2006) Imed Kacem et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH