This study addresses a two-stage flowshop with a batch machine in stage 1 and a discrete machine in stage 2, subject to the constraint that the input buffer of the discrete machine can only host limited number of jobs. The batch machine processes a batch of jobs simultaneously, and the discrete...

In the scheduling literature, it is often assumed that jobs arrive either simultaneously or individually. However, this assumption is invalid in most practical situations because jobs usually arrive in batches, e.g., the final testing house in the manufacturing of semiconductor. The concept of...