Trigonometric sums and summation formulas have long served as essential tools for elucidating periodic phenomena across mathematics and the physical sciences. These techniques entail the explicit ...
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 359, No. 3 (Mar., 2007), pp. 1161-1189 (29 pages) We consider sums of the form $\sum_{j=0}^{n-1}F_{1}(a_{1}n+b ...
This paper considers the problem of scheduling a given number of jobs on a single machine to minimize the sum of maximum earliness and maximum tardiness when sequence-dependent setup times exist (1Ç€ST ...