Variable Neighborhood Search for Parallel Machines Scheduling Problem with Step Deteriorating Jobs

In many real scheduling environments, a job processed later needs longer time than the same job when it starts earlier. This phenomenon is known as scheduling with deteriorating jobs to many industrial applications. In this paper, we study a scheduling problem of minimizing the total completion time...

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Main Authors: Wenming Cheng, Peng Guo, Zeqiang Zhang, Ming Zeng, Jian Liang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/928312