Scheduling of complex manufacturing systems entails complicated constraints such as the
mating operational one. Focusing on the real settings, this article considers an extended …

Wind energy has been widely applied in power generation to alleviate climate problems.
The wind turbine layout of a wind farm is a primary factor of impacting power conversion …

Nowadays, the make-to-order (MTO) production has gradually become a new manufacturing
trend, and the real-time arrival of orders has brought great challenges to order acceptance …

The solution of high dimensional function has always been a hot topic. In this paper, a novel
algorithm based on Kernel Fuzzy C-means and dolphin swarm algorithm are proposed to …

Reduction of carbon emissions is receiving growing attention in manufacturing industry. In
the real-life flexible open-shop manufacturing environments, the workpieces generally need …

This paper proposes a new extension of the multi-skill resource-constrained project
scheduling problem: MS-RCPSP with skill switches. In real-world environment, the switch …

The job shop scheduling problem (JSSP) with dynamic events and uncertainty is a strongly
NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem (COP) with extensive applications in the …

Multi-variety and small-batch production mode enables manufacturing industries to
expeditiously satisfy customers' personalised demands, where a large amount of identical …

Human factors, including worker flexibility and learning–forgetting effects, are crucial factors
in modern manufacturing systems to reduce costs and improve efficiency. However …

To meet the diverse needs of customers with a competitive offering, many companies are
utilizing product families and platform-based product development to increase variety …