The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 55, No. 7, Part Special Issue: Local Search (Jul., 2004), pp. 694-704 (11 pages) The multi-index assignment problem (MIAP) with decomposable costs ...
This paper focuses on a production planning problem in an assembly system operating on a make-to-order basis. Due dates are considered as constraints in the problem, that is, tardiness is not allowed.