“…Baker and Scudder [15] published a comprehensive state-of-the-art review for different variants of the / problem including the problem with a CDD. Also, many papers addressed the same objective in multimachine scheduling environment such as parallel machines (e.g., Emmons [16], Cheng and Chen [17], Alvarez-Valdes et al [18], Kayvanfar et al [19], Li et al [20], Kubiak et al [21]) and flow shops (e.g., Sarper [22], Sung and Min [23], Mosheiov [24], Gupta et al [25], Lauff and Werner [26], Chandra et al [27], Behnamian et al [28], and M'Hallah [29]). Much less has been published on scheduling problems for job shops (e.g., Lauff and Werner [30], Baptiste et al [31], Yang et al [32], and Wang and Li [33]).…”