Journal of Applied Operational Research

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Journals:
Garey MR, Johnson DS and Sethi R (1976). The complexity of flowshop and jobshop scheduling. Mathematics of Operations Research 1: 117-129

Paper in a Contributed Volume:
Pinson E (1995). The job shop scheduling problem: a concise survey and some recent developments. In: Chretienne P, Coffman Jr EG, Lenstra JK and Liu Z (eds). Scheduling Theory and its Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester pp 277-293

Books:
Sule DR (1997). Industrial Scheduling. PWS Publishing Company, Boston

Dissertations:
Sheibani K (2005). Fuzzy Greedy Evaluation in Search, Optimisation, and Learning. PhD thesis, London Metropolitan University, London, UK

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