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Permutation flow shop scheduling: variability of completion time differences – NP-completeness

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  • Barbara König
  • Rainer Leisten
  • Jan Stückrath

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We consider the permutation flow shop scheduling problem and aim to obtain smoothness of jobs' completion times, by minimising the variance or the variability of inter-completion times. This problem, including an efficient heuristics, was introduced in Leisten and Rajendran (2015). Here we solve an open problem from that paper and show that the problem for more than two machines is NP-complete.

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  • Barbara König & Rainer Leisten & Jan Stückrath, 2020. "Permutation flow shop scheduling: variability of completion time differences – NP-completeness," International Journal of Operational Research, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 39(4), pages 562-573.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijores:v:39:y:2020:i:4:p:562-573
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