Flow-shop scheduling with exact delays to minimize makespan

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
Computers and Industrial Engineering, 2023, 183
Issue Date:
2023-09-01
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The flow-shop scheduling problem with exact delays is generalization of no-wait flow-shop scheduling in which an exact delay exists between the consecutive tasks of each job. The problem with distinct delays to minimize the makespan is strongly NP-hard even for the two-machine case with unit execution time tasks. Providing polynomial-time solutions for special cases of the problem, we show that the two-machine permutation flow-shop case is solvable in O(nlogn) time, while the case with more than two machines is strongly NP-hard. We also show that the multi-machine case with delays following the ordered structure possesses the pyramidal-shaped property and propose an O(n2)-time dynamic program to solve it. We further improve the time complexity of the solution algorithm to O(nlogn) under certain conditions.
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