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Hamilton Emmons () and George Vairaktarakis ()
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Hamilton Emmons: Case Western Reserve University
George Vairaktarakis: Case Western Reserve University

Chapter Chapter 1 in Flow Shop Scheduling, 2013, pp 1-19 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We start by presenting the basic structure and language of flow shops, and the conventions and notation to be adopted. The concepts of precedence, permutation schedules and when they are optimal, graphic schedule representations, dominance properties, heuristics and error bounds, cyclic shops and other fundamentals are introduced.

Keywords: Completion Time; Optimal Schedule; Flow Shop; Gantt Chart; Priority Index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5152-5_1

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