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Cyclic sequencing problems in the two-machine permutation flow shop: Complexity, worst-case, and average-case analysis. (English) Zbl 0731.90041

When jobs are processed in a repetitive cycle, the size of a scheduling problem is significantly reduced, and the resulting schedule is easy to implement. Two types of cyclic sequencing problems are considered: the no-wait problem and the minimum-wait problem. The no-wait problem maximizes the throughput rate subject to the condition that there is no buffer space between the two machines. The minimum-wait problem minimizes the average WIP level subject to the conditions that the maximum throughput rate is maintained and that the FIFO dispatching rule is used in the intermediate buffer space. The no-wait problem is a special case of the traveling salesman problem (TSP) and is polynomially solvable. The minimum-wait problem is shown to be NP-hard; therefore, a heuristic procedure is proposed along with the analysis of its worst-case and average-case performance.
Reviewer: R.Slowinski

MSC:

90B35 Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research
90C60 Abstract computational complexity for mathematical programming problems
90-08 Computational methods for problems pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming
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