Flowshop Scheduling: Theory, Algorithms, and Managerial Insights
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Abstract
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 together a huge body of knowledge on the
subject, along distinct design features, in order to help scholars and practitioners easily
identify problems of interest. This monograph has been organized into ten distinct flow
shop systems and explores their connections. The chapters cover fl ow shop systems
including two-machine, flexible, stochastic, and more. Outside of the traditional fl ow
shops that require a job never revisits any stage, this book also examines the reentrant
flow shop, in which a job may cycle back and be reprocessed at the same station or
sequence of stations, multiple times.
Th e authors have made the material accessible to a broad readership, using simplified
notation and revealing unifying concepts. The results unique to flow shop research
should provide the seed for research in other areas of scheduling and in optimization
in general.
