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Approximation results for flow shop scheduling problems with machine availability constraints

Approximation results for flow shop scheduling problems with machine availability constraints
Approximation results for flow shop scheduling problems with machine availability constraints
This paper considers two-machine flow shop scheduling problems with machine availability constraints. When the processing of a job is interrupted by an unavailability period of a machine, we consider both the resumable scenario in which the processing can be resumed when the machine next becomes available, and the semi-resumable scenarios in which some proportion of the processing is repeated but the job is otherwise resumable. For the
resumable scenario, problems with non-availability intervals on one of the machines are shown to admit fully polynomial-time approximation schemes that are based on an extended dynamic programming algorithm. For the problem with several non-availability intervals on the first machine, we present a fast 3/2-approximation algorithm. For the problem with one non-availability interval under the semi-resumable scenario, polynomial-time approximation schemes are developed.
flow shop scheduling, machine non-availability, approximation algorithm
0305-0548
379-390
Kubzin, Mikhail A.
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Potts, Chris N.
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Strusevich, Vitaly A.
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Kubzin, Mikhail A.
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Potts, Chris N.
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Kubzin, Mikhail A., Potts, Chris N. and Strusevich, Vitaly A. (2009) Approximation results for flow shop scheduling problems with machine availability constraints. Computers and Operations Research, 36 (2), 379-390. (doi:10.1016/j.cor.2007.10.013).

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This paper considers two-machine flow shop scheduling problems with machine availability constraints. When the processing of a job is interrupted by an unavailability period of a machine, we consider both the resumable scenario in which the processing can be resumed when the machine next becomes available, and the semi-resumable scenarios in which some proportion of the processing is repeated but the job is otherwise resumable. For the
resumable scenario, problems with non-availability intervals on one of the machines are shown to admit fully polynomial-time approximation schemes that are based on an extended dynamic programming algorithm. For the problem with several non-availability intervals on the first machine, we present a fast 3/2-approximation algorithm. For the problem with one non-availability interval under the semi-resumable scenario, polynomial-time approximation schemes are developed.

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Published date: February 2009
Keywords: flow shop scheduling, machine non-availability, approximation algorithm
Organisations: Operational Research

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Local EPrints ID: 149837
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/149837
ISSN: 0305-0548
PURE UUID: d7de4bec-33e2-4e08-88c3-9d5022751879

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Date deposited: 04 May 2010 08:43
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 01:11

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Author: Mikhail A. Kubzin
Author: Chris N. Potts
Author: Vitaly A. Strusevich

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