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In many management situations multiple agents pursuing different objectives compete on the usage of common processing resources. In this paper we study a two-agent single-machine scheduling problem with release times where the objective is to minimize the total weighted completion time of the jobs of one agent with the constraint that the maximum lateness of the jobs of the other agent does not exceed...