TY - GEN digital ID - 131511968 TI - Flow Shop Scheduling : Theoretical Results, Algorithms, and Applications AU - Emmons, Hamilton AU - Vairaktarakis, George PY - 2013 SN - 9781461451525 PB - Boston, MA Springer US DB - UniCat KW - Economics KW - Methodology of economics KW - Operational research. Game theory KW - Mathematical statistics KW - Business economics KW - Planning (firm) KW - Physical distribution KW - Production management KW - Business management KW - Business economics KW - financieel management KW - bedrijfseconomie KW - SCM (supply chain management) KW - economie KW - mathematische modellen KW - productie KW - econometrie KW - logistiek KW - operationeel onderzoek UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131511968 AB - Although several monographs and edited volumes have discussed scheduling in general, most of these works survey the field by contributing a single chapter to production systems like flow shops. Flow Shop Scheduling: Theoretical Results, Algorithms, and Applications is solely dedicated to bringing together a huge body of knowledge on the subject, along distinct design features, in order to help scholars and practitioners easily identify problems of interest. This monograph has been organized into ten distinct flow shop systems and explores their connections. The chapters cover flow shop systems including two-machine, flexible, stochastic, and more. Outside of the traditional flow shops that require a job never revisits any stage, this book also examines the reentrant flow shop, in which a job may cycle back and be reprocessed at the same station or sequence of stations, multiple times. The authors have made the material accessible to a broad readership, using simplified notation and revealing unifying concepts. The results unique to flow shop research should provide the seed for research in other areas of scheduling and in optimization in general. ER -