We consider scheduling problems with learning/deterioration effects and time-dependent processing times on a single machine, with or without due date assignment considerations. By reducing them to a special assignment problem on product matrices, we solve all these problems in near-linear time....

This paper addresses a bicriteria no-wait flow-shop scheduling problem with multiple robots transferring jobs between pairs of consecutive machines. The robots share an identical track positioned alongside the machine transfer line. Each robot is assigned to a portion of the tract from which it...