Abstract
This paper considers the problem of scheduling a two-stage flowshop that consists of a common critical machine in stage one and two independent dedicated machines in stage two. All the jobs require processing first on the common critical machine. Each job after completing its critical operation in stage one will proceed to the dedicated machine of its type for further processing in stage two. The objective is to minimize the weighted sum of stage-two machine completion times. We show that the problem is strongly NP-hard, and develop an O (n3) polynomial time algorithm to solve the special case where the sequences of both types of jobs are given. We also design an approximation algorithm with a tight performance ratio of frac(4, 3) for the general case.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 3031-3040 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Computers and Operations Research |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2009 |
Keywords
- Approximation algorithm
- Flowshop
- Machine completion time
- Performance ratio
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science
- Management Science and Operations Research
- Modelling and Simulation