An improved artificial bee colony for multi-objective distributed unrelated parallel machine scheduling

D Lei, Y Yuan, J Cai - International Journal of Production Research, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Distributed scheduling has been frequently investigated with the increasing applications of
multi-factory production; however, distributed unrelated parallel machine scheduling …

Scheduling pre-emptible tasks with flexible resourcing options and auxiliary resource requirements

RL Burdett, P Corry, C Eustace, S Smith - Computers & Industrial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Scheduling problems are ubiquitous and arise in numerous real-life applications. In this
article situations involving resourcing flexibility, auxiliary resource requirements and pre …

Scheduling of unrelated parallel machines considering sequence-related setup time, start time-dependent deterioration, position-dependent learning and power …

H Soleimani, H Ghaderi, PW Tsai… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
This research presents an optimization problem associated with scheduling of unrelated
parallel machines considering the simultaneous effects of start-time-related deterioration …

A new unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem with tool changes to minimise the total energy consumption

L Zhang, Q Deng, G Gong, W Han - International Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The previous studies on scheduling problem with tool changes take processing time as the
only reason for the tool wear, which is not accurate in the real manufacturing system. This …

A branch and bound algorithm for a parallel machine scheduling problem in green manufacturing industry considering time cost and power consumption

Y Xiao, Y Zheng, Y Yu, L Zhang, X Lin, B Li - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
The concept that green manufacturing can create social value has emerged around the
world to reduce the amount of carbon emissions and preserve the ecological environment …

Game problem of assigning staff to project implementation

A Kowalska-Styczeń, P Kravets, V Lytvyn… - … in Management and …, 2023 - dmame-journal.org
This article describes how to solve the game problem of assigning staff to work on projects
based on the ontological approach. The stochastic game algorithm for colouring an …

Tabu search for a parallel-machine scheduling problem with periodic maintenance, job rejection and weighted sum of completion times

H Krim, N Zufferey, JY Potvin, R Benmansour… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
We consider in this work a bicriteria scheduling problem on two different parallel machines
with a periodic preventive maintenance policy. The two objectives considered involve …

A flexible job shop scheduling approach with operators for coal export terminals–a mature approach

RL Burdett, P Corry, C Eustace, S Smith - Computers & Operations …, 2020 - Elsevier
This article presents an improved scheduling approach for optimising the activities of a coal
export terminal (CET) and includes for the first time, new methodology for handling blending …

[HTML][HTML] The crop growth planning problem in vertical farming

A Santini, E Bartolini, M Schneider… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we study the problem of planning the growth of crops on shelves in vertical
farming cabinets under controlled growth conditions. By adjusting temperature, humidity …

Buffer allocation design for unreliable production lines using genetic algorithm and finite perturbation analysis

K Kassoul, N Cheikhrouhou… - International journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The buffer allocation problem in production lines is an NP-hard combinatorial optimisation
problem. This paper proposes a new hybrid optimisation approach (using simulation) relying …