Interstage transportation planning in the deterministic flow-shop environment
Operations Research
An adaptable scheduling algorithm for flexible flow lines
Operations Research
Parallel machines scheduling with nonsimultaneous machine available time
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Intelligent Manufacturing-Simulation Agents Tool (IMSAT)
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
Algorithms for Scheduling Independent Tasks
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Hybrid flow shop scheduling: a survey
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A polynomial time approximation scheme for the two-stage multiprocessor flow shop problem
Theoretical Computer Science
Introduction to Intelligent Simulation: The Rao Language
Introduction to Intelligent Simulation: The Rao Language
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness
Local search heuristics for two-stage flow shop problems with secondary criterion
Computers and Operations Research
Minimizing makespan in hybrid flowshops
Operations Research Letters
Operations Research Letters
Simulation-based multi-objective optimization of a real-world scheduling problem
Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation
Considering scheduling and preventive maintenance in the flowshop sequencing problem
Computers and Operations Research
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Integrating simulation and optimization to schedule loading operations in container terminals
Computers and Operations Research
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Computers and Operations Research
A survey of scheduling with deterministic machine availability constraints
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Computers and Industrial Engineering
PPAM'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Parallel processing and applied mathematics
International Journal of Metaheuristics
An effective heuristic for flexible job-shop scheduling problem with maintenance activities
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Minimizing the makespan in the non-preemptive job-shop scheduling with limited machine availability
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Incorporating periodic preventive maintenance into flexible flowshop scheduling problems
Applied Soft Computing
Computers and Industrial Engineering
ICCCI'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Computational collective intelligence: technologies and applications - Volume Part II
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Two-stage hybrid flow shop scheduling with dynamic job arrivals
Computers and Operations Research
Computers and Industrial Engineering
International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics
A holonic approach to flexible flow shop scheduling under stochastic processing times
Computers and Operations Research
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The scheduling problems have been discussed in the literature extensively under the assumption that machines are continuously available. However, in most real life industrial settings a machine can be unavailable for many reasons, such as unforeseen breakdowns (stochastic unavailability) or due to a scheduled preventive maintenance where the periods of unavailability are known in advance (deterministic unavailability). In this paper, we deal with the hybrid flow shop scheduling problem under maintenance constraints to optimize several objectives based on flow time and due date. In this model, we take also on consideration setup, cleaning and transportation times. This paper has three goals. The first is to show how we can integrate simulation and optimization to tackle this practical problem which is NP-hard on the strong sense. The second is to illustrate by an experimentation study that the performance of heuristics applied to this problem can be affected by the percentage of the breakdown times. The last is to show that this approach can perform better than NEH heuristics under certain conditions.