| Article ID: | iaor1995898 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 15 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 215 |
| End Page Number: | 222 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1994 |
| Journal: | Optimal Control Applications & Methods |
| Authors: | Kogan K., Khmelnitsky E. |
| Keywords: | scheduling |
This communication concerns a derivation and study of necessary optimality conditions for production scheduling. The continuous-time optimal control problem is stated for the analysis of extremal behaviour of a flexible flow shop. This is accomplished by means of the maximum principle, which is applied to the problem with irregular constraints and three typical forms of objective function.