Worst-case and numerical analysis of heuristic algorithms for flowshop scheduling problems with a time-dependent learning effect

Information Sciences

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 282-297

  Kuo, Wen Hung ^a   Hsu, Chou Jung ^b   Yang, Dar Li ^a  

^a NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NAN KAI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Flowshop; Learning effect; Scheduling; Worst case analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPLETION TIME; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; FLOW SHOP SCHEDULING PROBLEM; FLOW-SHOPS; LEARNING EFFECTS; MAKESPAN; MAXIMUM LATENESS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; POLYNOMIAL ALGORITHM; PROCESSING TIME; TIME-DEPENDENT LEARNING; TOTAL FLOWTIME; WEIGHTED COMPLETION; WORST-CASE ANALYSIS;

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 80055048882     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2011.08.018     Document Type: Article

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