... that each of the variables , , and has multiple indices. For a five-operation example performed on a 2-MU, 2-WL parallel machine,given that both MUs and one WL are available for each operation, ... overall quality of the proposed tabu search, a randomproblem generator is needed to produce a set of representative test problems. The design of such a randomproblem generator and a comparison ... 999–1013. 21. D. Yip-Hoi and D. Dutta, An introduction to parallel machine tools and related CAPP issues,Advances in Feature Base Manufacturing, J.J. Shah, M. Mäntylä and D.S. Nau (Eds.), Elsevier,New...