Mao, Kun; Pan, Quan-ke; Pang, Xinfu; Chai, Tianyou - In: European Journal of Operational Research 236 (2014) 1, pp. 51-60
One of the largest bottlenecks in iron and steel production is the steelmaking-continuous casting (SCC) process, which consists of steel-making, refining and continuous casting. The SCC scheduling is a complex hybrid flowshop (HFS) scheduling problem with the following features: job grouping and...