Liu, Shi Qiang; Kozan, Erhan - In: International Journal of Production Economics 117 (2009) 2, pp. 371-380
In this paper, four inter-machine buffer conditions (i.e. no-wait, no-buffer, limited-buffer and infinite-buffer) in a flow shop are investigated. These four different buffer conditions are combined to generate a more generalised and more comprehensive scheduling problem, which can cover the...