Scheduling in stochastic flowshops with independent setup, processing and removal times

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 955-960

  Allahverdi, Ali ^a,b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS CONTROL; RANDOM PROCESSES; SCHEDULING;

REMOVAL TIMES; STOCHASTIC FLOWSHOPS;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0031258858     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(97)00006-3     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Johnson, S. M., Optimal two and three-stage production schedules with setup times included. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 1954, 1, 69-81.
2. Sule, D. R., Sequencing n jobs on two machines with setup, processing and removal times separated. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 1982, 29(3), 517-519.
3. Allahverdi, A. and Mittenthal, J., Scheduling on a two-machine flowshop subject to random breakdowns with a makespan objective function. European Journal of Operational Research , 1995, 81, 376-387.
4. Yoshida, T. and Hitomi, K., Optimal two-stage production scheduling with setup times separated . AIIE Transactions, 1979, 11(3), 261-263.
5. Sule, D. R. and Huang, K. Y., Sequencing on two and three machines with setup, processing and removal times separated, . International Journal of Production Research , 1983, 21(5), 723-732.
6. Allahverdi, A., Two-stage production scheduling with separated set-up times and stochastic breakdowns. Journal of the Operational Research Society , 1995, 46, 896-904.
7. Allahverdi, A., Two-machine proportionate flowshop scheduling with breakdowns to minimize maximum lateness. Computers & Operations Research , 1996, 23, 909-916.
8. Kijima, M., Makimoto, N. and Shirakawa, H., Stochastic minimization of the makespan in flowshops with identical machines and buffers of arbitrary size. Operations Research , 1990, 38, 924-928.
9. Pinedo, M., Minimizing the expected makespan in stochastic flowshops. Operations Research , 1982, 30, 148-162.
10. Birge, J., Frenk, J. B. G., Mittenthal, J. and Rinnooy Kan, A. H. G., Single-machine scheduling subject to stochastic breakdowns. Naval Research Logistics , 1990, 37, 661-677.
11. Foley, R. D. and Suresh, S., Stochastically minimizing the makespan in flowshops. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly , 1984, 31, 551-557.
12. Foley, R. D. and Suresh, S., Scheduling n nonoverlapping jobs and two stochastic jobs in a flowshop. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly , 1986, 33, 123-128.
13. Ku, P. S. and Niu, S. C., On Johnson's two-machine flowshop with random processing times. Operations Research , 1986, 34, 130-136.
14. Allahverdi, A. and Mittenthal, J., Two-machine ordered flowshop scheduling under random breakdowns, . Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 1994, 20(2), 9-17.