Article ID: | iaor2001211 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 120 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 382 |
End Page Number: | 392 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2000 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Proth Jean-Marie, Levner Eugene, Chauvet Fabrice, Meyzin Leonid K. |
A real-time scheduling algorithm which guarantees an optimal completion time to each job which arrives at a line of chemical tanks for a surface treatment purpose is proposed. We first consider the case when the treatment periods are much greater than the transportation times, which allows us to neglect these times. We then extend our approach to the case when transportation times cannot be neglected. Some numerical examples are provided to illustrate this approach.