id: 01358100
dt: j
an: 01358100
au: Brah, Shaukat A.; Loo, Luan Luan
ti: Heuristics for scheduling in a flow shop with multiple processors.
so: Eur. J. Oper. Res. 113, No.1, 113-122 (1999).
py: 1999
pu: Elsevier Science B.V.(North-Holland), Amsterdam
la: EN
cc: 
ut: flexible flow lines; simulation; scheduling heuristics; flow shop with
    multiple processors
ci: 
li: doi:10.1016/S0377-2217(97)00423-2
ab: Summary: This study investigates the performance of scheduling heuristics
    in a flow shop with multiple processors. We investigated five better
    performing flow shop heuristics for their performances of makespan and
    mean flow time criteria in a flow shop with multiple processors. The
    study examined the effects of problem characteristics (number of jobs,
    number of machine stages and number of parallel processors at each
    stage) and the performance of heuristics using regression analysis. We
    found that although structural characteristics explain most of the
    variation in performance, heuristics also had an effect. The
    experimental results showed that flow shop heuristics developed by
    Nawaz, Enscore, and Ham and that of Ho were comparable in performance
    in a flow shop with multiple processors. However, the former was
    slightly more consistent in results for both criteria.
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