Two-machine flow shop and open shop scheduling problems with a single maintenance window

Gur Mosheiov, Assaf Sarig, Vitaly A Strusevich and Jonathan Mosheiff

European Journal of Operational Research, 2018, vol. 271, issue 2, 388-400

Abstract: The paper considers the two-machine flow shop and open shop scheduling problems to minimize the makespan, provided that one of the machines is subject to maintenance, which has to start within a prescribed time window. In the case of the flow shop, maintenance is performed on the second machine. A non-resumable setting is considered, i.e., if a job cannot be completed prior to the maintenance, it must restart from scratch after the maintenance. For each of these NP-hard problems we develop a 3/2–approximation algorithm.

Keywords: Scheduling; Flow shop; Open shop; Machine maintenance start window; Approximation algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2018.04.019

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