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In a so-called mixed-shop scheduling problem, the operations of some jobs have to be processed in a fixed order (as in the job-shop problem); the other ones can be processed in an arbitrary order (as in the open-shop problem). In this paper we present a new exact polynomial-time algorithm for the mixed-shop problems with preemptions and at most two unit operations per job.
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We thank anonymous reviewers for their thorough and constructive comments. This work was supported in part by the RFH-NSC grant 13-22-10002.
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Dugarzhapov, A., Kononov, A. A polynomial-time algorithm for the preemptive mixed-shop problem with two unit operations per job. J Sched 19, 61–72 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-015-0454-9
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