Article ID: | iaor20117143 |
Volume: | 39 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 571 |
End Page Number: | 575 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Mosheiov Gur, Mor Baruch |
Keywords: | manufacturing industries, combinatorial optimization |
The solution of the classical batch scheduling problem with identical jobs and setup times to minimize flowtime is known for twenty five years. In this paper we extend this result to a setting of two uniform machines with machine‐dependent setup times. We introduce an