Abstract
This paper considers a specially structured n-jobs
and m-machines flow shop scheduling in which the processing
times are associated with probabilities. The objective of this
problem focuses on minimization of the total rental cost of the
machines under a specified rental policy. In recent years,
researchers have suggested many heuristic procedures to
minimize the makespan, but in many cases the minimization of
makespan does not give the minimum rental cost of the machines.
An algorithm is proposed to solve the problem