Complexity of cyclic scheduling problems: A state-of-the-art survey

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 352-361

  Levner, Eugene ^a   Kats, Vladimir ^b   Alcaide López De Pablo, David ^c   Cheng, T C E ^d  

^a HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Institute for Industrial Mathematics Israel   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^d HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Complexity; Cyclic scheduling problems; Reducibility; Robotic scheduling

Indexed keywords

JOB SHOP SCHEDULING; ROBOTICS; SURVEYS;

COMPLEXITY; CURRENT COMPLEXITY; CYCLIC SCHEDULING; CYCLIC SCHEDULING PROBLEMS; PROJECT SCHEDULING PROBLEM; REDUCIBILITY; ROBOTIC SCHEDULING; STATE OF THE ART;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 77955700913     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2010.03.013     Document Type: Short Survey

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