Abstract
The problem of minimum makespan on an m machine jobshop with unit execution time (UET) jobs (m a≥ 3) is known to be strongly NP-hard even with no setup times. We focus in this article on the two-machine case. We assume UET jobs and consider batching with batch availability and machine-dependent setup times. We introduce an efficient (O(√n)) algorithm, where n is the number of jobs. We then introduce a heuristic for the multimachine case and demonstrate its efficiency for two interesting instances.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 676-684 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Naval Research Logistics |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2011 |
Keywords
- batch scheduling
- jobshop
- setup-time
- unit execution time jobs