Heuristics based on dispatching rules are still widely used in practice as methods for effective scheduling systems …. Despite the successful development of various novel dispatching rules for traditional job shop scheduling environments, nearly … implementing novel dispatching rules into twostage heuristics in order to solve group scheduling problems in a job shop …

Scheduling problem in a cellular manufacturing system is treated as the group scheduling problem, assuming that … costly and infeasible. This fact limits the applicability of group scheduling. Scheduling problem in the presence of … bottleneck machines is termed as cell scheduling. A mixed-integer linear programming model is proposed for the attempted cell …

-oriented scheduling rule are used. …