supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60973085, 61174187);National Hi-tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Program, Grant No. 2009AA044601);New Century Excellent Talents in University of China (Grant No. NCET-08-0232)
Unlike a traditional flowshop problem where a job is assumed to be indivisible, in the lot-streaming flowshop problem, a job is allowed to overlap its operations between successive machines by splitting it into a numb...