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...