Article ID: | iaor19941472 |
Country: | Canada |
Volume: | 32 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 99 |
End Page Number: | 109 |
Publication Date: | May 1994 |
Journal: | INFOR |
Authors: | Ratliff H. Donald, Ramudhin Amar |
Keywords: | combinatorial analysis, heuristics |
The authors consider the problem of scheduling a two-stage processing system where each stage consists of a set of independent parallel processors. A job requires processing on a processor from each set and no-wait schedules are required. The authors show that this problem is hard for it generalizes jobshop and flowshop scheduling. This observation provides a new conceptual framework for process scheduling and allows several solvable special cases to be identified.