A New Lower Bound for Flexible Flow Shop Problem with Unrelated Parallel Machines

Flexible flow shop scheduling problem (FFS) with unrelated parallel machines contains sequencing in flow shop where, at any stage, there exists one or more processors. The objective consists of minimizing the maximum completion time. Because of NP-completeness of FFS problem, it is necessary to use...

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Main Authors: Nasim Nahavandi, Ebrahim Asadi Gangraj
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Iran University of Science & Technology 2014-02-01
Series:International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Production Research
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Online Access:http://ijiepr.iust.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-147-4&slc_lang=en&sid=1