FlowShopProblematik
The FlowShopProblematik, often referred to as the Flow Shop Problem, is a classic scheduling problem in operations research and computer science. It deals with determining the optimal sequence in which a set of jobs should be processed on a series of machines, where each job must follow the same sequence of machines. The goal is typically to minimize the makespan, which is the total time required to complete all jobs.
In a typical flow shop environment, there are n jobs and m machines. Each job j requires
The FlowShopProblematik is known to be NP-hard for m > 2 machines, meaning that finding the absolute