This paper reviews recent studies of dispatching rules. A dispatching rule is used to select
the next job to be processed from a set of jobs awaiting service. The paper has two …

Industries nowadays must be able to quickly adapt with the customer and improve product
quality to survive in the competitive edge. Job shop scheduling is crucial in the …

Many dispatching rules for scheduling in dynamic jobshops have been proposed over many
years. The research issues in jobshop scheduling seem to be still open in the sense that no …

This research involves the development and analysis of a model of a particular set of real
world job shops. The characteristics of the process include workers flexibility and job …

This paper provides a set of new dispatching rules for the minimization of various
performance measures such as mean, maximum and variance of flow time and tardiness in …

In this paper we present a new dispatching rule which is dynamic and global in its structure.
The rule adapts itself to the variation in the shop floor utilization level and assigns …

We consider in this article the development of new and efficient dispatching rules with
respect to the objectives of minimizing mean flowtime, maximum flowtime, variance of …

This paper presents a comparative study on the performance of dispatching rules in the
following sets of dynamic manufacturing systems: flowshops and jobshops, and flowshops …

This study attempts to provide efficient dispatching rules for dynamic job shop scheduling by
combining different dispatching rules. A dispatching rule is used to select the next job to be …

This paper attempts to provide an economic framework in which various job shop
dispatching rules can be evaluated. It shows the relative advantage of shortest processing …