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Minimizing the Makespan and Flowtime in Two-Machine Stochastic Open Shops

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Tian-Shyug Lee  and
Georgia-Ann Klutke
Tian-Shyug Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Business Administration, College of Management, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
Georgia-Ann Klutke
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77841-3131
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In this paper, we present some new results on the makespan and flowtime in a two-parallel machine open shop. A set of n jobs is to be processed on two machines, the order of processing being immaterial. For the case where the machines are identical, and the jobs are nonoverlapping ordered, we show that the sequences that stochastically minimize the makespan are longest processing time first-shortest processing time first (LPT-SPT). Within this class of sequences, we show that the SPT sequence stochastically minimizes the flowtime.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , October 1996 , pp. 557 - 567
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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