Ozturk, Onur; Begen, Mehmet A.; Zaric, Gregory S. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 239 (2014) 1, pp. 214-226
In this paper, we address the problem of parallel batching of jobs on identical machines to minimize makespan. The problem is motivated from the washing step of hospital sterilization services where jobs have different sizes, different release dates and equal processing times. Machines can...