| Article ID: | iaor1991978 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 371 |
| End Page Number: | 374 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1990 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Kubiak W., Lou S., Sethi S. |
The mean flow time problem and the mean absolute deviation problem for multiple uniform parallel machines are shown to be equivalent. For multiple unrelated parallel machines, a reduction of the mean absolute deviation problem into a transportation problem is presented.