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| Author: | Kouvelis, P. Lee, H. L. |
| Title: | Block angular structures and the loading problem in flexible manufacturing systems. |
| Journal: | Operations Research
1991 : JUL-AUG, VOL. 39:4, p. 666-676 |
| Index terms: | FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The loading problem faced by managers of flexible manufacturing systems /FMSs/ is formulated as an integer program. By appropriately reformulating the problem, an efficient algorithm is developed for solving it. While former work provides a very efficient relaxation procedure for the case of a linking constraint, the procedure is less efficient for multiple linking constraint cases. The new method exploits not only the block angular structure, but also the structure of linking constraints, so that we are able to handle multiple constraints with almost the same efficiency as that achieved by others for a single linking constraint. |
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