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The Two-Machine Maximum Flow Time Problem with Series-Parallel Precedence Constraints: An Algorithm and Extensions

Clyde L. Monma
- 01 Aug 1979 - 
- Vol. 27, Iss: 4, pp 792-798
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This note contains an 0(n log n) time-bounded implementation and extentions for a procedure developed by Sidney for the two-machine maximum flow time problem with series-parallel precedence constraints.
Abstract
This note contains an 0(n log n) time-bounded implementation and extentions for a procedure developed by Sidney for the two-machine maximum flow time problem with series-parallel precedence constraints.

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Sequencing and scheduling: algorithms and complexity

TL;DR: This survey focuses on the area of deterministic machine scheduling, and reviews complexity results and optimization and approximation algorithms for problems involving a single machine, parallel machines, open shops, flow shops and job shops.
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A Survey of Machine Scheduling Problems with Blocking and No-Wait in Process

TL;DR: Several well-documented applications of no-wait and blocking scheduling models are described and some ways in which the increasing use of modern manufacturing methods gives rise to other applications are illustrated.
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Chapter 9 Sequencing and scheduling: Algorithms and complexity

TL;DR: Different types of sequencing and scheduling problems are discussed, and different types of algorithms and the concepts of complexity theory are described.
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Sequencing with Series-Parallel Precedence Constraints

TL;DR: A natural subclass of problems for which a total preference ordering of the jobs exists for all subsequences of jobs is considered, and an efficient general algorithm is found for these sequencing problems with series-parallel precedence constraints.
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Minimizing the makespan in a two-machine cross-docking flow shop problem

TL;DR: A branch-and-bound algorithm is constructed that can optimally solve problems with up to 60 jobs within a reasonable amount of time and is developed with an error-bound analysis.
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Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems

TL;DR: The work of Dantzig, Fulkerson, Hoffman, Edmonds, Lawler and other pioneers on network flows, matching and matroids acquainted me with the elegant and efficient algorithms that were sometimes possible.
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The complexity of theorem-proving procedures

TL;DR: It is shown that any recognition problem solved by a polynomial time-bounded nondeterministic Turing machine can be “reduced” to the problem of determining whether a given propositional formula is a tautology.
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Optimal two- and three-stage production schedules with setup times included

TL;DR: A simple decision rule is obtained in this paper for the optimal scheduling of the production so that the total elapsed time is a minimum.
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On the Computational Complexity of Combinatorial Problems

TL;DR: A large class of classical combinatorial problems, including most of the difficult problems in the literature of network flows and computational graph theory, are shown to be equivalent, in the sense that either all or none of them can be solved in polynomial time.
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Sequencing Jobs to Minimize Total Weighted Completion Time Subject to Precedence Constraints

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the problem is NP-complete if there are arbitrary precedence constraints, but can be solved in O( n log n ) time if precedence constraints are series parallel.