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Flow Shop Scheduling with Shortening Jobs for Makespan Minimization

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  • Zheng-Wei Sun

    (School of Computer, Shenyang Aerospace University, Shenyang 110136, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Dan-Yang Lv

    (School of Mechatronics Engineering, Shenyang Aerospace University, Shenyang 110136, China
    Key Laboratory of Rapid Development & Manufacturing Technology for Aircraft, Shenyang Aerospace University, Ministry of Education, Shenyang 110136, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Cai-Min Wei

    (School of Mathematics and Computer, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Ji-Bo Wang

    (School of Computer, Shenyang Aerospace University, Shenyang 110136, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

Abstract

This paper deals with a two-machine flow shop problem with shortening jobs. A shortening job means that the job’s processing time is a decreasing function of its starting time. The aim is to find a sequence that minimizes the makespan of all the jobs. several dominance properties, some lower bounds, and an initial upper bound are derived, which are applied to propose a branch-and-bound algorithm to solve the problem. We also propose some heuristics and mathematical programming. Computational experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithms.

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  • Zheng-Wei Sun & Dan-Yang Lv & Cai-Min Wei & Ji-Bo Wang, 2025. "Flow Shop Scheduling with Shortening Jobs for Makespan Minimization," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-23, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:13:y:2025:i:3:p:363-:d:1574570
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