1. Yokoyama, M., and Santos, D. L., “Three-stage Flow-shop Scheduling with Assembly Operations to Minimize the Weighted Sum of Product Completion Times”, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 161, pp. 754-770, 2005.
2. Kan, A. H. G. R., Machine Scheduling Problems, Martinus Nijhoff, Hague, 1976.
3. Allahverdi, A., and Al-Anzi, F. S., “The Two-stage Assembly Scheduling Problem to Minimize Total Completion Time with Setup Times”, Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 36, pp. 2740-2747, 2009.
4. Lee, C. Y., Cheng, T. C. E., and Lin, B. M. T., “Minimizing the Makespan in the 3-machine Assembly-type Flowshop Scheduling Problem”, Management Science, Vol. 39, pp. 616-625, 1993.
5. Potts, C. N., Sevast Janov, S. V., Strusevich, V. A., Van Wassenhove, L. N., and Zwaneveld, C. M., “The Two-Stage Assembly Scheduling Problem: Complexity and Approximation”, Operations Research, Vol. 43, pp. 346-355, 1995.
6. Hariri, A. M. A., and Potts, C. N., “A Branch and Bound Algorithm for the Two-stage Assembly Scheduling Problem”, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 103, pp. 547-556, 1997.
7. Cheng, T. C. E., and Wang, G., “Scheduling the Fabrication and Assembly of Components in a Two-machine Flowshop”, IIE Transactions, Vol. 31, pp. 135-143, 1999.
8. Sung, C. S., and John, J., “Makespan Minimization for a 2-stage Assembly Scheduling Problem Subject to Component Available Time Constraint”, International Journal of Production, Vol. 119, pp. 392-401, 2009.
9. Yokoyama, M., “Hybrid Flow-shop Scheduling with Assembly Operations”, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 73, pp. 103-116, 2001.
10. Rios-Mercado, R. Z., and Bard, J. F., “The Flowshop Scheduling Polyhedron with Setup Times”, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Vol. 7, pp. 291-318, 2003.
11. Kennedy, J., and Eberhart, R., “Particle Swarm Optimization”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, Vol. 4, pp. 1942-1948, 1995.
12. Ge, H. W., Sun, L., Liang, Y. C., and Qian, F., “An Effective PSO and AIS-based Hybrid Intelligent Algorithm for Job-shop Scheduling”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A, Vol. 38, pp. 358-368, 2008.
13. Kuo, I. H., Horng, S. J., Kao, T. W., Lin, T. L., Lee, C. L., and Terano, T., “An Efficient Flow-shop Scheduling Algorithm Based on a Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Model”, Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 36, pp. 7027-7032, 2009.
14. Liao, C. J., Tseng, C. T., and Luarn, P., “A Discrete Version of Particle Swarm Optimization for Flowshop Scheduling Problems”, Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 34, pp. 3099-3111, 2007.
15. Xia, W., and Wu, Z., “A Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Approach for the Jobshop Scheduling Problem”, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 29, pp. 360-366, 2005.
16. Gen, M., Tsujimura, Y., and Kubota, E., “Solving Job Shop Scheduling Problem using Genetic Algorithms”, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer and Industrial Engineering, Ashikaga, Japan, pp. 576-579, 1994.
17. Lin, T. L., Hong, S. J., Kao, T. W., Chen, Y. H., Run, R. S., Chen, R. J., Lai, J. L., and Kuo, I. H., “An Efficient Job-shop Scheduling Algorithm Based on Particle Swarm Optimization”, Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 37, pp. 2629-2636, 2010.
18. Cochran, W. G., and Cox, G. M., Experimental Designs, 2nd ed., Wiley, USA, 1992.
19. Ross, R. J., Taguchi Techniques for Quality Engineering, McGraw-Hill, USA, 1989.