Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10524223 | Operations Research Letters | 2005 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
We consider the processing of M jobs in a flow shop with N stations in which only a single server is in charge of all stations. We demonstrate that for the objective of minimizing the total setup and holding cost, a class of easily implementable schedules is asymptotically optimal.
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Authors
S.M.R. Iravani, C.P. Teo,