Dispatching rules are commonly used for job shop scheduling in industries because they
are easy to implement, and they yield reasonable solutions within a very short computational …

Identifying the best Dispatching Rule in order to minimize makespan in a Job Shop
Scheduling Problem is a complex task, since no Dispatching Rule is better than all others in …

This study proposes a new type of dispatching rule for job shop scheduling problems. The
novelty of these dispatching rules is that they can iteratively improve the schedules by …

In production planning and scheduling, data mining methods can be applied to transform the
scheduling data into useful knowledge that can be used to improve planning/scheduling by …

Industries nowadays must be able to quickly adapt with the customer and improve product
quality to survive in the competitive edge. Job shop scheduling is crucial in the …

Dispatching rules are simple scheduling heuristics that are widely applied in industrial
practice. Their popularity can be attributed to their ability to flexibly react to shop floor …

Because of advances in computational power and machine learning algorithms, the
automated design of scheduling rules using Genetic Programming (GP) is successfully …

Although the academic contribution to job shop scheduling is abundant, its impact on
practice has been minimal. The most preferred approach to job shop scheduling in the …

In many intelligent job shop, a scheduling system has collected and stored huge amounts of
production data. Meanwhile, managers still believe that more scheduling knowledge should …

Designing effective dispatching rules for production systems is a difficult and time-
consuming task if it is done manually. In the last decade, the growth of computing power …