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Technical Note—Minimizing Average Flow Time with Parallel Machines

W. A. Horn
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W. A. Horn: National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.

Operations Research, 1973, vol. 21, issue 3, 846-847

Abstract: This note shows that the assignment and sequencing of single-operation jobs in a parallel-machine environment can be formulated as an assignment problem. Means for reducing the size and computational difficulty of this problem are identified.

Date: 1973
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