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Makespan Minimization in Two-Machine Flow-Shop Scheduling under No-wait and Deterministic Unavailable Interval Constraints

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This paper systematically studies the two-machine flow-shop scheduling problems with no-wait and deterministic unavailable interval constraints. To minimize the makespan, three integer programming mathematical models are formulated for two-machine flow-shop with no-wait constraint, two-machine flow-shop with resumable unavailable interval constraint, and two-machine flow-shop with no-wait and non-resumable unavailable interval constraints problems, respectively. The optimal conditions of solving the two-machine flow-shop with no-wait constraint problem by the permutation schedules, the two-machine flow-shop with resumable unavailable interval constraint problem by the Johnson algorithm, and two-machine flow-shop with no-wait and non-resumable unavailable interval constraints problem by the Gilmore and Gomory Algorithm (GGA) are presented, respectively. And the tight worst-case performance bounds of Johnson and GGA algorithms for these problems are also proved to be 2. Several instances are generated to demonstrate the proposed theorems. Based on the experimental results, GGA obtains the optimal solution for the two-machine flow-shop with no-wait constraint problem. Although it cannot reach the optimal solution for the two-machine flow-shop with resumable unavailable interval constraint problem, the optimal gap is 0.18% on average when the number of jobs is 100. Moreover, under some special conditions, it yields the optimal solution for the two-machine flow-shop with no-wait and non-resumable unavailable interval constraints problem. Therefore, GGA is an efficient heuristic to solve these problems.

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We appreciate the editors and anonymous reviewers for their constructive and valuable suggestions and comments. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant No. 71801051.

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    Kejia Chen, Debiao Li & Xiao Wang

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Kejia Chen received his Ph.D. degree in industrial and systems engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2007. His research interests include production management and operations research. He has published more than 90 papers in technical journals and conference proceedings. He is currently a Professor in School of Economics and Management, Fuzhou University, China.

Debiao Li received the Ph.D. degree in system science from The State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, USA, in 2015. He is currently an associate professor in School of Economics and Management, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China. His current research interests include scheduling and operations management.

Xiao Wang is a master student of Management Science in School of Economics and Management, Fuzhou University, China. She received BS Degree from the China University of Mining and Technology in 2009. Her research interests include production management and operations research.

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Chen, K., Li, D. & Wang, X. Makespan Minimization in Two-Machine Flow-Shop Scheduling under No-wait and Deterministic Unavailable Interval Constraints. J. Syst. Sci. Syst. Eng. 29, 400–411 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11518-020-5456-2

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