Article ID: | iaor20124246 |
Volume: | 63 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 302 |
End Page Number: | 312 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2012 |
Journal: | Computers & Industrial Engineering |
Authors: | Tong Lee-Ing, Chung Yu-Hsiang |
Keywords: | combinatorial optimization, manufacturing industries |
In traditional scheduling problems, the processing time for the given job is assumed to be a constant regardless of whether the job is scheduled earlier or later. However, the phenomenon named ‘learning effect’ has extensively been studied recently, in which job processing times decline as workers gain more experience. This paper discusses a bi‐criteria scheduling problem in an