# Optimal Scheduling of a Two-stage Hybrid Flow Shop

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• Mohamed Haouari

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• Lotfi Hidri
• Anis Gharbi

## Abstract

We present an exact branch-and-bound algorithm for the two-stage hybrid flow shop problem with multiple identical machines in each stage. The objective is to schedule a set of jobs so as to minimize the makespan. This is the first exact procedure which has been specifically designed for this strongly $$\mathcal{NP}$$ -hard problem. Among other features, our algorithm is based on the exact solution of identical parallel machine scheduling problems with heads and tails. We report the results of extensive computational experiments on instances which show that the proposed algorithm solves large-scale instances in moderate CPU time. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2006

## Suggested Citation

• Mohamed Haouari & Lotfi Hidri & Anis Gharbi, 2006. "Optimal Scheduling of a Two-stage Hybrid Flow Shop," Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR);Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB), vol. 64(1), pages 107-124, August.
• Handle: RePEc:spr:mathme:v:64:y:2006:i:1:p:107-124
DOI: 10.1007/s00186-006-0066-4
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1. Ruiz, Rubén & Vázquez-Rodríguez, José Antonio, 2010. "The hybrid flow shop scheduling problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 205(1), pages 1-18, August.
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### Keywords

Deterministic scheduling; Hybrid flow shop; Branch-and-bound method;

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