Article ID: | iaor19952085 |
Country: | Switzerland |
Volume: | 57 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 191 |
End Page Number: | 201 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1995 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Janiak Adam, Kovalyov Mikhail Y. |
The single machine group scheduling problem is considered. Jobs are classified into several groups on the basis of group technology, i.e. jobs of the same group have to be processed jointly. A machine set-up time independent of the group sequence is needed between each two consecutive groups. A schedule specifies the sequence of groups and the sequence of jobs in each group. The quality of a schedule is measured by the criteria