On scheduling cycle shops: classification, complexity and approximation

On scheduling cycle shops: classification, complexity and approximation

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Article ID: iaor20041565
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 5
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 135
End Page Number: 169
Publication Date: Mar 2002
Journal: Journal of Scheduling
Authors: ,
Keywords: production
Abstract:

This paper considers problems of finding non-periodic and periodic schedules in a cycle shop which is a special case of a job shop but an extension of a flow shop. The cycle shop means the machine environment where all jobs have to pass the machines over the same route as in a flow shop but some of the machines in the route can be met more than once. We propose a classification of cycle shops and show that recently studied reentrant flow shops, robotic flow shops, loop reentrant flow shops and V shops are special cases of cycle shops. Problems solvable in polynomial time, pseudopolynomial time, NP-hard problems and performance guaranteed approximations are presented. Related earlier results are surveyed.

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