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Sequencing and scheduling : algorithms and complexity

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A survey of deterministic machine scheduling can be found in this article, where complexity results and optimization and approximation algorithms for problems involving a single machine, parallel machines, open shops, flow shops and job shops are presented.
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Sequencing and scheduling as a research area is motivated by questions that arise in production planning, in computer control, and generally in all situations in which scarce resources have to be allocated to activities over time. In this survey, we concentrate on the area of deterministic machine scheduling. We review complexity results and optimization and approximation algorithms for problems involving a single machine, parallel machines, open shops, flow shops and job shops. We also pay attention to two extensions of this area: resource-constrained project scheduling and stochastic machine scheduling.

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An adaptive branching rule for the permutation flow-shop problem : (preprint)

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TL;DR: A branch-and-bound algorithm is presented for the permutation flow-shop problem in which the objective is to minimise the maximum completion time and computational results indicate that the proposed algorithm is superior to previously published algorithms.
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