The Hybrid Flow Shop

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

Chapter Chapter 5 in Flow Shop Scheduling, 2013, pp 161-187 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter we organize the literature on the hybrid flow shop scheduling problem that has appeared since the late 1950’s. We see a number of interesting and diverse industrial applications of this system, and find that the majority of research focuses on the makespan objective. Our coverage of results is exhaustive and categorized along concepts such as complexity, error-bound analyses, computational experiments and choice of objective. Several new results are included that have not appeared in the literature before. Surprisingly, existing research does not focus on the deterministic version of the problem alone, but also on the case of stochastic processing times.

Keywords: Completion Time; Idle Time; Flow Shop; Quay Crane; Flow Shop Schedule Problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5152-5_5

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