| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10523993 | Operations Research Letters | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
We discuss a new resource paradox in the area of scheduling: Increasing the speed of some machines in a no-wait flow-shop instance may actually worsen the optimal makespan. We construct instances for which the ratio between optimal makespan with improved speed and optimal makespan without improved speed becomes arbitrarily bad.
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Authors
Frits C.R. Spieksma, Gerhard J. Woeginger,