This book is designed for specially structured flow shop scheduling problems which are more close to real world industry. In the modern era of globalization a cut throat competition an edge in the business, industries depends upon multitude of factors with the sole purpose of maximization of profit and minimization of cost. With the resources being limited the emphasis lies on finding out a best way for effecient utilization of resources. Scheduling is a key factor to solve the problem. Scheduling is the allocation of resources over time to perform a collection of task. It is an important...

This introductory text provides a concise and practical introduction to the primary concepts and techniques of specially structured flowshop scheduling models to minimize the rental cost of machines taken on rent under a specified rental policy. Classical flowshop scheduling problems are under assumption that the processing times of jobs are always random. But there are significant situations where the processing time are not merely random but bear a well defined relationship to one another and hence, the concept of specially structured is significant in the field of scheduling. The concepts...

This book is designed to offer a lively applied presentation of analytical and empirical tool for Linkage Model of network of queues with a flowshop scheduling system. This introductory text provides a concise and practical introduction to the primary concepts and techniques of Linkage Model. A lot of research work has already been done separately in the field of Queuing and Scheduling. A few efforts has been recorded so far to combine these two systems. The present work is an attempt to establish the linkage between these two systems of optimization. The Queuing-Scheduling linkage models are...

Today we are living in a information technological age where computer networks are playing a big role. On the other hand due to globalization and complex competitive market situation the worlds people are going with speed. The role of scheduling theory is increasing day by day in minimize the idle time of man and machine at work. The waiting time problem can be solve by using scheduling technique to meet the objective of the organization with efficiency and effectiveness. Manufacturing industries are the backbone in the economic structure of a nation. As the benefits from a manufacturing...