Computational complexity and solution algorithms for flowshop scheduling problems with the learning effect

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-31

  Rudek, Radosław ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Computational complexity; Flowshop; Heuristic; Learning effect; Polynomial algorithm; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY FUNCTIONS; FLOW SHOP SCHEDULING PROBLEM; FLOW-SHOPS; HEURISTIC; JOB PROCESSING TIME; LEARNING ABILITIES; LEARNING CURVES; LEARNING EFFECT; LEARNING EFFECTS; MAKESPAN MINIMIZATION; NP-HARD; ONE-MACHINE; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; POLYNOMIAL ALGORITHM; SOLUTION ALGORITHMS; STRONGLY NP-HARD; TWO-MACHINE FLOWSHOP;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 79955887163     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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