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No-wait Job Shop Scheduling: Tabu Search and Complexity of Subproblems

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This paper deals with the no-wait job shop problem with a makespan objective. We present some new theoretical properties on the complexity of subproblems associated with a well-known decomposition approach. Justified by the complexity results, we implement a fast tabu search algorithm for the problem at hand. It is extensively tested on known benchmark instances and compares favorably to the best existing algorithms for the no-wait job shop as well as the no-wait flow shop.

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Schuster, C.J. No-wait Job Shop Scheduling: Tabu Search and Complexity of Subproblems. Math Meth Oper Res 63, 473–491 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00186-005-0056-y

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