Abstract: The work deals with the NP-hard problem of scheduling tasks on two machines with the sum-cost criterion. In this problem, each task must be performed sequentially on the first and then on ...

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Abstract: We consider the problem of scheduling a set of jobs subject to unequal release dates on a two-machine flow shop where the no-wait and non-availability constraints are considered so as to ...

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