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The Nonpermutation Flowshop Scheduling Problem: Adjustment and Bounding Procedures

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  • Anis Gharbi
  • Mohamed Labidi
  • Mohamed Aly Louly

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We consider the makespan minimization in a flowshop environment where the job sequence does not have to be the same for all the machines. Contrarily to the classical permutation flowshop scheduling problem, this strongly NP‐hard problem received very scant attention in the literature. In this paper, some improved single‐machine‐based adjustment procedures are proposed, and a new two‐machine‐based one is introduced. Based on these adjustments, new lower and upper bounding schemes are derived. Our experimental analysis shows that the proposed procedures provide promising results.

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  • Anis Gharbi & Mohamed Labidi & Mohamed Aly Louly, 2014. "The Nonpermutation Flowshop Scheduling Problem: Adjustment and Bounding Procedures," Journal of Applied Mathematics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 2014(1).
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jnljam:v:2014:y:2014:i:1:n:273567
    DOI: 10.1155/2014/273567
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