Modelling and robust scheduling of two-stage assembly flow shop under uncertainty in assembling times

Subject Areas : Mathematical Optimization

Maryam seyedhamzeh ¹ ( Department of Industrial Management, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran. )
hossein amoozad khalili ² ( Department of Industrial Engineering, Nowshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Nowshahr, Iran. )
Seyed Mohammad Hassan Hosseini ³ ( Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran. )
mortaza honarmand azimi ⁴ ( Department of Management, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran. )
Kamaladdin Rahmani ⁵ ( Department of Management, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran. )

Received: 2021-08-08 Accepted : 2021-11-04 Published : 2021-08-01

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