Parallel machine scheduling with a learning effect

G Mosheiov ()
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G Mosheiov: The Hebrew University

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2001, vol. 52, issue 10, 1165-1169

Abstract: Abstract The phenomenon of ‘learning’ has been extensively studied in many different areas of Operational Research. However, the ‘learning effect’ of the producer/processor has rarely been studied in the general context of production scheduling, and has never been investigated in multi-machine scheduling settings. We focus in this paper on flow-time minimization on parallel identical machines. We show that this problem has a polynomial time solution, although the computational effort required is much larger than the effort required for solving the classical version of the problem.

Keywords: scheduling; parallel machines; flow-time; learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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