A note on a greedy heuristic for flow-shop makespan minimization with no machine idle-time

Daniel Baraz; Gur Mosheiov

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2006.11.025

A note on a greedy heuristic for flow-shop makespan minimization with no machine idle-time

Daniel Baraz, Gur Mosheiov^*

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Abstract

We study makespan minimization on an m machine flowshop. No idle time is allowed between consecutive operations on each machine. We introduce an efficient (O(n²)) greedy algorithm, which is shown numerically to perform better than a recently published heuristic.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	810-813
Number of pages	4
Journal	European Journal of Operational Research
Volume	184
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2006.11.025
State	Published - 16 Jan 2008

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This paper was supported in part by the Rekanati Fund of The School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Keywords

Flowshop
Heuristics
Makespan
Scheduling

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