Notwithstanding its disruptive potential, which has been the object of considerable debate,
Industry4. 0 (I4. 0) operationalisation still needs significant study. Specifically, scheduling is …

Genetic programming has been a powerful technique for automated design of production
scheduling heuristics. Many studies have shown that heuristics evolved by genetic …

In recent years, some attention has been driven to modeling, simulation, and optimization
techniques capable of representing and improving discrete event systems. These …

Dynamic scheduling is crucial for semiconductor manufacturing as product-mix is increasing
with shortening product life cycle. However, the present problem is challenging owing to …

Intelligent scheduling covers various tools and techniques for successfully and efficiently
solving the scheduling problems. In this paper, we provide a survey of intelligent scheduling …

Recently, the transportation capability of the automated material handling system (AMHS)
has emerged as a major barrier to the semiconductor fabrication facility (FAB), because it …

Abstract Machine scheduling aims to optimally assign jobs to a single or a group of
machines while meeting manufacturing rules as well as job specifications. Optimizing the …

Dispatching rules are fast and simple procedures for creating schedules for various kinds of
scheduling problems. However, manually designing DRs for all possible scheduling …

The problem of production flow in manufacturing systems is analyzed. The machines can be
operated by workers or by robots, since breakdowns and human factors destabilize the …

The weakly hard real-time system model is used for describing the real-time systems that
allow occasional violations of real-time timing constraints. These systems include real-time …