tardiness

n.

缓慢；迟延；拖拉；

1. Attendance policies with clear incentives and sanctions should be used to reduce the amount of time lost through student absenteeism and tardiness.
   应该使用具有清晰目的与支持的政策来减少因学生旷课和学习缓慢而导致的时间损失。
2. Fundamentally speaking, the accumulation of difficult employment in these years is caused by the slowness and tardiness of enterprise innovation and extension of core employment.
   从根本上说，这些年就业困难的积累是企业创新和核心就业扩展缓慢的严重滞后所导致的。

MINIMIZING TOTAL TARDINESS ON ONE MACHINE IS NP-HARD
Priority rules for job shops with weighted tardiness costs
Scheduling a production line to minimize maximum tardiness
Earliness-Tardiness Scheduling Problems, I: Weighted Deviation of Completion Times About a Common Due Date
Earliness-tardiness scheduling problems: I. Weighted derivation of completion times about a common due date
A Branch and Bound Algorithm for the Total Weighted Tardiness Problem
A heuristic to minimize the total weighted tardiness with sequence-dependent setups
One-Processor Scheduling with Symmetric Earliness and Tardiness Penalties
A “Pseudopolynomial” Algorithm for Sequencing Jobs to Minimize Total Tardiness *
An Iterated Dynasearch Algorithm for the Single-Machine Total Weighted Tardiness Scheduling Problem.