Amin-Naseri, Mohammad Reza; Beheshti-Nia, Mohammad Ali - In: International Journal of Production Economics 117 (2009) 1, pp. 185-196
In this research the problem of parallel batch scheduling in a hybrid flow shop environment with minimizing Cmax is studied. In parallel batching it is assumed that machines in some stages are able to process a number of operations simultaneously. Since the problem is NP-hard, three heuristic...