Three Heuristic Procedures for the Stochastic Flow Shop Problem
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Although the deterministic flow shop model is one of the most widely studied problems in scheduling theory, its stochastic analog has remained challenging. No computationally efficient optimization procedure exists even for the general two-machine version. In this paper, we describe three heuristic procedures for the stochastic two-machine flow shop problem and report on computational experiments to compare their effectiveness. We find that all three are reliably better than using an arbitrary sequence, and they are capable of generating solutions close to optimal. In addition, the conditions under which they perform well can vary, and our experiments shed some light on these differences.
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