Zhou, Feng; Blocher, James D.; Hu, Xinxin; Sebastian … - In: European Journal of Operational Research 233 (2014) 1, pp. 75-83
We consider the problem of scheduling products with components on a single machine, where changeovers incur fixed costs. The objective is to minimize the weighted sum of total flow time and changeover cost. We provide properties of optimal solutions and develop an explicit characterization of...