This book is designed to offer a lively applied presentation and empirical tool for flow shop scheduling techniques. It employs several pedagogical devices to help the reader to learn the new concepts quickly and absorb them fully. With a strong emphasis on basic concepts and techniques throughout, the book explains the theory behind each technique as simply as possible, along with illustrations and worked examples. The book is mainly oriented towards various scheduling techniques in flow shop scheduling. However, the book can be read without any prior knowledge of scheduling theory and may be of interest to all people.

This book is designed to offer a lively applied presentation of analytical and empirical tool for Linkage Model of network of queues with a flowshop scheduling system. This introductory text provides a concise and practical introduction to the primary concepts and techniques of Linkage Model. A lot of research work has already been done separately in the field of Queuing and Scheduling. A few efforts has been recorded so far to combine these two systems. The present work is an attempt to establish the linkage between these two systems of optimization. The Queuing-Scheduling linkage models are motivated by the fact that they are more meaningful from practical point of view. The illustrated examples format introduced in the text for every concept helps the reader to formulate the realistic problems easily. The C++ programmes under various sections will enable the readers and industrial people to apply these concepts practically. This book can be read without any prior knowledge of Queuing and Scheduling theory and may be of interest to all people.

This introductory text provides a concise and practical introduction to the primary concepts and techniques of specially structured flowshop scheduling models to minimize the rental cost of machines taken on rent under a specified rental policy. Classical flowshop scheduling problems are under assumption that the processing times of jobs are always random. But there are significant situations where the processing time are not merely random but bear a well defined relationship to one another and hence, the concept of specially structured is significant in the field of scheduling. The concepts / illustrative examples format introduced in the text helps the readers to formulate the real world problem easily. The c++ programs under each section will enable the readers and industrial people to apply these concepts practically. This book is mainly oriented towards the Specially Structured flowshop scheduling models to minimize the rental cost. This book can be read without any prior knowledge theory and may be of interest to all people.

This book is designed to offer a lively applied presentation of analytical and empirical tool for Bicriteria in flow-shop scheduling problems. It employs several pedagogical devices to help the readers to learn the new concepts quickly and absorb them fully. Classical flow shop scheduling problems mainly concerned with completion time related objects. in modern manufacturing and operation managements, the minimization of utilization time/rental cost of the machines with minimum make-span are the significant factors for the reason of upward stress of completion on the market. The Bicriteria scheduling problems are motivated by the fact that they are more meaningful from practical point of view.The concepts/illustrated examples format introduced in the text helps the readers to formulate the real world problem easily. The C++ programs under each section will enable the readers and industrial people to apply these concepts practically. The book is mainly oriented towards Bicriteria in flow-shop scheduling. However, the book can be read without any prior knowledge of scheduling theory and may be of interest to all people.