Title: A literature review on hybrid flow shop scheduling

Authors: Ömür Tosun; M.K. Marichelvam; Nedret Tosun

Addresses: Department of Management Information Systems, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, 626005, India ' Department of Econometrics, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey

Abstract: Scheduling problems are one of the widely used problems which have both academic and real-life applications. In academic fields, it can be used to test the efficiency of a newly developed solution techniques. As it is known to be NP-hard, these problems are keystones to show the performance of a new or improved method, especially metaheuristics. Apart from the standard scheduling problems, one of its challenging sub-problem is hybrid flow shop (HFS) scheduling. Except from the literature survey of Ruiz and Vázquez-Rodríguez (2010), no recent analysis is given to give the new solution trends in HFS. To solve this missing piece, in this study 219 HFS articles from 2010-2019 period are analysed with the main focus of metaheuristic techniques. Also, analysis based on the citations are given.

Keywords: hybrid flow shop; HFS; literature review; metaheuristics; scheduling; optimisation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAOM.2020.108263

International Journal of Advanced Operations Management, 2020 Vol.12 No.2, pp.156 - 194

Accepted: 06 Feb 2020
Published online: 07 Jul 2020 *

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