Scheduling with Deadlines and Loss Functions

Robert McNaughton
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Robert McNaughton: The Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania

Management Science, 1959, vol. 6, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: The problem of this paper is that of scheduling several one-stage tasks on several processors, which are capable of handling the tasks with varying degrees of efficiency, to minimize the total loss, which is a sum of losses associated with the individual tasks. Each task has a deadline; the individual loss associated with it is a function of amount of time between the deadline and the time of completion if the former precedes the latter, and zero otherwise.

Date: 1959
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