aDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands bDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam ...

Abstract: The Flexible Flow Shop Scheduling Problem (FFSP) involves scheduling jobs across multiple machines with flexible operation sequences. As an NP-hard problem with discrete variables and ...

Abstract: The Reentrant Flexible Flow Shop Scheduling Problem (RFFSP) involves multiple repetitions of job processing in the production system, which leads to higher scheduling complexity. To solve ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...