Scheduling with Rejection and a Deteriorating Maintenance Activity on a Single Machine

We study single-machine scheduling problems with job rejection and a deteriorating maintenance activity, where the impact of performing this activity is reflected in a reduction of the job processing times. The duration of the maintenance activity is a linear increasing function of its starting time. The aim is to determine the location of the maintenance activity and the job sequence of the accepted jobs so as to minimize scheduling cost of the accepted jobs plus total penalty of the rejected jobs. When the scheduling measures are the makespan, total completion time and combination of earliness, tardiness and due date cost, we provide polynomial time algorithms to solve these problems, respectively. When the scheduling measures are the maximum tardiness and total weighted completion time under the agreeable ratio assumption, we introduce pseudo-polynomial time algorithms to solve these NP-hard problems, respectively.