Flow Shop Scheduling Theoretical Results, Algorithms, and Applications /

• Main Authors: Emmons, Hamilton (Author), Vairaktarakis, George (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 182
• Subjects: Business.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Management science.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Operations Management.

Although several monographs and edited volumes have discussed scheduling in general, most of these works survey the field by contributing a single chapter to production systems like flow shops. Flow Shop Scheduling: Theoretical Results, Algorithms, and Applications is solely dedicated to bringing to...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Two-Machine Flow Shop
• Transfer Lags in the Flow Shop
• The m-Machine Flow Shop
• The Machine Flow Shop
• The Hybrid Flow Shop
• The No-Wait Flow Shop
• Blocking or Limited Buffers in Flow Shops
• Flexible Flow Shops
• Reentrant Flow Shops
• The Robust Flow Shops
• Stochastic Flow Shops
• The Complexity of Problems.