《2016 Job-shop scheduling with blocking and no-wait constraints 》.pdf

European Journal of Operational Research 143 (2002) 498–517 /locate/dsw Discrete Optimization Job-shop scheduling with blocking and no-wait constraints Alessandro Mascis a, Dario Pacciarelli b,* a ADtranz – DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems (Italy), Signalling Division, via del Campo Romano, 59 – 00173 Roma, Italy b Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Universitaa ‘‘Roma Tre’’, via della Vasca Navale 79, I-00146 Roma, Italy Received 24 January 2001; accepted 25 September 2001 Abstract In this paper, we study the job-shop scheduling problem with blocking and/or no-wait constraints. A blocking constraint models the absence of storage capacity between machines, while a no-wait constraint occurs when two consecutive operations in a job must be processed without any interruption. We formulate the problem by means of a generalization of the disjunctive graph of Roy and Sussman, that we call an alternative graph, and investigate the applicability to the blocking and no-wait cases of some of the most effective ideas from the literature on the job shop with unlimited buffers. We show that several key properties, used to design heuristic procedures, do not hold in the blocking and no-wait cases, while some of the most effective ideas used to develop branch and bound algorithms can be easily extended. We presents several complexity results and solution procedures. Computational results for fast heu- ristics and exact algorithms are also reported. 200 2Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Scheduling; Job shop; Blocking; No-wait 1. Introduction last op