In recent years, the subcontracting production for foreign trade of the Xi’an Aviation Engine Company (XAEC), a foreign trade production base of China, has achieved rapid development. In 1994, the company’s export e...In recent years, the subcontracting production for foreign trade of the Xi’an Aviation Engine Company (XAEC), a foreign trade production base of China, has achieved rapid development. In 1994, the company’s export earnings from foreign trade made a breakthrough at US$11 million, and it was commended by the State Economic展开更多
In this paper,we study a model on joint decisions of scheduling and subcontracting, in which jobs(orders) can be either processed by parallel machines at the manufacturer in-house or subcontracted to a subcontractor.T...In this paper,we study a model on joint decisions of scheduling and subcontracting, in which jobs(orders) can be either processed by parallel machines at the manufacturer in-house or subcontracted to a subcontractor.The manufacturer needs to determine which jobs should be produced in-house and which jobs should be subcontracted.Furthermore,it needs to determine a production schedule for jobs to be produced in-house.We discuss five classical scheduling objectives as production costs.For each problem with different objective functions,we give optimality conditions and propose dynamic programming algorithms.展开更多
文摘In recent years, the subcontracting production for foreign trade of the Xi’an Aviation Engine Company (XAEC), a foreign trade production base of China, has achieved rapid development. In 1994, the company’s export earnings from foreign trade made a breakthrough at US$11 million, and it was commended by the State Economic
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(70731160015)Supported the National Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(yw06037)
文摘In this paper,we study a model on joint decisions of scheduling and subcontracting, in which jobs(orders) can be either processed by parallel machines at the manufacturer in-house or subcontracted to a subcontractor.The manufacturer needs to determine which jobs should be produced in-house and which jobs should be subcontracted.Furthermore,it needs to determine a production schedule for jobs to be produced in-house.We discuss five classical scheduling objectives as production costs.For each problem with different objective functions,we give optimality conditions and propose dynamic programming algorithms.