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2006
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Applying machine based decomposition in 2-machine flow shops
The Shifting Bottleneck (SB) heuristic is among the most successful approximation methods for solving the Job Shop problem. It is essentially a machine based decomposition procedu...
Saral Mukherjee, A. K. Chatterjee
ICALP
2009
Springer
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Improved Bounds for Flow Shop Scheduling
We resolve an open question raised by Feige & Scheideler by showing that the best known approximation algorithm for flow shops is essentially tight with respect to the used low...
Monaldo Mastrolilli, Ola Svensson