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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
16 years 18 days ago
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