• Title of article

    A polynomial-time approximation scheme for the two-machine flow shop scheduling problem with an availability constraint

  • Author/Authors

    Joachim Breit، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    11
  • From page
    2143
  • To page
    2153
  • Abstract
    We study the problem of scheduling n preemptable jobs in a two-machine flow shop where the first machine is not available for processing during a given time interval. The objective is to minimize the makespan. We propose a polynomial-time approximation scheme for this problem. The approach is extended to solve the problem in which the second machine is not continuously available.
  • Keywords
    Approximation algorithms , Flow shop scheduling , Availability constraints
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Record number

    928756