A TWO-STAGE GREEDY HEURISTIC FOR A FLOWSHOP SCHEDULING PROBLEM UNDER TIME-OF-USE ELECTRICITY TARIFFS

This paper studies a two-machine flowshop scheduling problem under time-dependent electricity tariffs, in which electricity prices may vary from time to time throughout the day. The main issue is to assign a set of jobs to available time slots with different electricity prices to minimise the total...

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Main Authors: Amir Ebrahimzadeh Pilerood, Mehdi Heydari, Mohammad Mahdavi Mazdeh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Stellenbosch University 2018-05-01
Series:South African Journal of Industrial Engineering
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Online Access:http://sajie.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1898