| Article ID: | iaor20031403 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 30 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 309 |
| End Page Number: | 320 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2003 |
| Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
| Authors: | Chung Chia-Shin, Krca mer, Tozkapan Ali |
| Keywords: | heuristics |
In this paper, a two-stage assembly scheduling problem is considered with the objective of minimizing the total weighted flowtime. A lower bounding procedure and a dominance criterion are developed and incorporated into a branch and bound procedure. A heuristic procedure is also used to derive an initial upper bound. Computational results of the algorithm are presented.