We consider the problem of scheduling n jobs to minimize the total earliness and tardiness
penalty. We review the literature on this topic, providing a framework to show how results …

The scheduling of computer and manufacturing systems has been the subject of extensive
research for over forty years. In addition to computers and manufacturing, scheduling theory …

Nature has been considered as an inspiration of several recent meta-heuristic algorithms.
This paper firstly studies and mimics the behavior of Scottish red deer in order to develop a …

Although several meta-heuristics have been developed in the last two decades, most of
them are population-based, undergo many steps along with several parameters that make …

Michael L. Pinedo Theory, Algorithms, and Systems Sixth Edition Page 1 Scheduling Michael L.
Pinedo Theory, Algorithms, and Systems Sixth Edition Page 2 Scheduling Page 3 Michael L …

A comprehensive guide to a powerful new analytical tool by two of its foremost innovators
The past decade has witnessed many exciting advances in the use of genetic algorithms …

This book is an outgrowth of an earlier text that appeared in 1999 under the title “Operations
Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing and Services”, coauthored with Xiuli Chao …

Genetic Algorithms (GA) as a tool for a search and optimizing methodology has now
reached a mature stage. It has found many useful applications in both the scientific and …

We aim at providing a unified framework of the common due date assignment and
scheduling problems in the deterministic case by surveying the literature concerning the …

In this paper we give a survey of the most important results on multicriteria scheduling that
have appeared in the literature or are to appear. We provide an extensive introduction …