Makespan Minimization in No-Wait Flow Shops: A Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme

  • Authors:
  • M. Sviridenko

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We investigate the approximability of a no-wait permutation flow shop scheduling problem under the makespan criterion. We present a polynomial time approximation scheme (PTAS) for the problem on any fixed number of machines.