@ARTICLE{Mehrdoust Shahrestani, author = {Mehrdoust Shahrestani, K. and Hamedi, M. and }, title = {A Heuristic Method for Scheduling a Multi-criteria Two-stage Hybrid Flow Shop Problem}, volume = {14}, number = {2}, abstract ={A two-stage hybrid flow shop problem can be considered as part of a larger issue; when solved, it can find a partial solution of a main and bigger problem. Here and in the current paper, a two-stage hybrid flow shop problem with one machine in the first stage and two machines in the second stage with three criteria such as: 1) maximum manufacturing time, 2) average manufacturing time and 3) sum of the second stage machines' idle time has been studied. Moreover, a heuristic method was introduced and compared with three algorithms based on simulated annealing (SA) across the three evaluation criteria. Finally, results as a multi-criteria decision problem were solved by Simple Additive Weighting (SAW). Results showed that the heuristic method was better than the three algorithms based on SA in 71.5% of problems. And the solving time was about 48.6 times less than the algorithms based on SA. Also, The innovative method has achieved an average of 30.5% better results in more than 93.4% of the cases }, URL = {http://jamlu.liau.ac.ir/article-1-1339-en.html}, eprint = {http://jamlu.liau.ac.ir/article-1-1339-en.pdf}, journal = {Journal of Operational Research and Its Applications}, doi = {}, year = {2017} }