Article ID: | iaor20032777 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 84 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 205 |
End Page Number: | 213 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2003 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
Authors: | Liao Ching-Jong, Lin Chien-Hung |
We consider the two uniform parallel machine problem with the objective of minimizing makespan. The problem can be transformed into a special problem of two identical parallel machines from the viewpoint of workload instead of completion time. An optimal algorithm is developed for the transformed special problem. Although the proposed algorithm has an exponential time complexity, the results show that it can find the optimal solution for large-sized problems in a short time.