Hnaien, Faicel; Yalaoui, Farouk; Mhadhbi, Ahmed - In: International Journal of Production Economics 164 (2015) C, pp. 95-104
This paper deals with the scheduling of a two-machine flowshop with an availability constraint on the first machine with the aim of minimizing the makespan. We investigate two mixed-integer programming (MIP) models for this problem. Then we propose a branch and bound (B&B) algorithm based on a...