Title
Including workers with disabilities in flow shop scheduling
Date Issued
07 October 2015
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do sul
Publisher(s)
IEEE Computer Society
Abstract
Persons with disabilities have severe problems participating in the job market and their unemployment rate is usually much higher than the average of the population. This motivates the research of new modes of production which allow to include these persons at a low overhead. In this paper we study the inclusion of persons with disabilities into flow shops with the objective of minimizing the makespan. Since flow shops usually have only a few machines, we focus on the inclusion of one and two workers. We define the problem, propose mathematical models and a heuristic solution, as well as realistic test instances. In computational tests we evaluate the performance of the models and the heuristic, and assess the utility of such a model of inclusion. We conclude that the problem can be solved satisfactorily, and that including workers with disabilities into flow shops is economically feasible.
Start page
985
End page
991
Volume
2015-October
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de producción
Ingeniería industrial
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84952769127
Source
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
Resource of which it is part
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
ISSN of the container
21618070
ISBN of the container
978-146738183-3
Conference
11th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2015
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