Overview
- Examines ten distinct flow shop systems
- Material has been written to be accessible to a broad readership, by simplifying notation and revealing unifying concepts
- First in-depth monograph dedicated to flow shop research
Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 182)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 flow shop systems including two-machine, flexible, stochastic, and more. Outside of the traditional flow 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.
The 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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Flow Shop Scheduling
Book Subtitle: Theoretical Results, Algorithms, and Applications
Authors: Hamilton Emmons, George Vairaktarakis
Series Title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5152-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-5151-8Published: 14 September 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8853-9Published: 15 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5152-5Published: 14 September 2012
Series ISSN: 0884-8289
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 334
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research, Management Science, Operations Management