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The paper considers the flow shop scheduling problems to minimize the makespan, provided that an individual precedence relation is specified on each machine. A fairly complete complexity classification of problems with two and three machines is obtained.
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Gladky, A., Shafransky, Y. & Strusevich, V. Flow Shop Scheduling Problems Under Machine–Dependent Precedence Constraints. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 8, 13–28 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOCO.0000021935.66577.09
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