Project management is a very important field employed for scheduling activities and monitoring the progress, in competitive and fluctuating environments. Project crashing analysis is concerned with shortening the project duration time by accelerating some of its activities at an additional cost....

This paper addresses a group scheduling problem in a two-machine flow shop with a bicriteria objective and carryover sequence-dependent setup times. This special type of group scheduling problem typically arises in the assembly of printed circuit boards (PCBs). The objective is to sequence all...