Technical Note—Three-Stage Flow-Shops with Recessive Second Stage
Author(s) -
Fennell Burns,
John Rooker
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
operations research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.797
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1526-5463
pISSN - 0030-364X
DOI - 10.1287/opre.26.1.207
Subject(s) - stage (stratigraphy) , schedule , mathematical optimization , flow (mathematics) , computer science , job shop scheduling , flow shop scheduling , maximum flow problem , operations research , mathematics , algorithm , biology , paleontology , geometry , operating system
Several papers have described special structural properties for which the minimum makespan flow-shop problem can be efficiently solved. We describe a new special case of the 3 × n problem with small second-stage processing times relative to the first and third stages for which Johnson's algorithm gives an optimal schedule.
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