The Nonpermutation Flowshop Scheduling Problem: Adjustment and Bounding Procedures

We consider the makespan minimization in a flowshop environment where the job sequence does not have to be the same for all the machines. Contrarily to the classical permutation flowshop scheduling problem, this strongly NP-hard problem received very scant attention in the literature. In this paper,...

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Main Authors: Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Labidi, Mohamed Aly Louly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Mathematics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/273567