Deadlock-free scheduling of flexible job shops with limited capacity buffers

European Journal of Industrial Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 231-252

  Fahmy, Sherif A ^a   ElMakkawy, Tarek Y ^a   Balakrishnan, Subramaniam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dadlock free scheduling; Insertion algorithm; Job shop; Limited buffer; Mathematical formulations; MIP; Mixed integer programming; Rank matrix

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SCHEDULING;

DEADLOCK-FREE SCHEDULING; FLEXIBLE JOB SHOPS; INSERTION ALGORITHM; LIMITED CAPACITY BUFFERS; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; RANK MATRIX;

JOB ANALYSIS;

EID: 41749111378     PISSN: 17515254     EISSN: 17515262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EJIE.2008.017685     Document Type: Article

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