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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2011, Article ID 151563, 19 pages doi:10.1155/2011/151563 Research Article Due-Window Assignment and Scheduling with Multiple Rate-Modifying Activities under the Effects of Deterioration and Learning Zhanguo Zhu,1, 2 Linyan Sun,1 Feng Chu,3 and Ming Liu4 1 School of Management, State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Manufacturing Systems Engineering and The Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Process Control and Effi ciency Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi Province, Xi’an 710049, China 2 Institut Charles Delaunay, Universite de Technologie de Troyes and FRE CNRS 2848, ´ Laboratoire d’Optimisation des Systemes Industriels (LOSI), 12 rue Marie Curie, BP 2060, ´ 10010 Troyes Cedex, France 3 Laboratoire d’Informatique, Biologie Integrative et Systemes Complexes (IBISC), FRE CNRS 3190, ´ ` Universite d’Evry Val d’Essonne, 40 rue du Pelvoux, CE1455 Courcouronnes, 91020 Evry Cedex, France ´ 4 School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China Correspondence should be addressed to Zhanguo Zhu, zhanguo.zhu@utt.fr Received 3 September 2010; Accepted 31 January 2011 Academic Editor: Paulo Batista Gonc¸alves Copyright q 2011 Zhanguo Zhu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper discusses due-window assignment and scheduling with multiple rate-modifying