Batch scheduling duling of incompatible jobs on a single reactor with dynamic arrivals

2004
Korkmaz, Gediz
In this study, a single machine batch-scheduling problem with incompatible jobs and dynamic arrivals is examined. The objective function is the minimization of the total flow time of the jobs. For solving problems a case specific branch and bound algorithm with a heuristic upper bound scheme and two alternative lower bound procedures is used. An extensive computational experiment is conducted to investigate the effects of certain parameters on the computation time. For the most difficult parameter combination branch and bound algorithm can solve the problems about 25 jobs with 4 different job types in a 10 minutes time on average. For the problem types with higher number of jobs and the most difficult parameter combination proposed upper bound heuristic can be used to obtain near optimal solutions.

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Citation Formats
G. Korkmaz, “Batch scheduling duling of incompatible jobs on a single reactor with dynamic arrivals,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2004.