The third comprehensive survey on scheduling problems with setup times/costs

A Allahverdi - European journal of operational research, 2015 - Elsevier
Scheduling involving setup times/costs plays an important role in today's modern
manufacturing and service environments for the delivery of reliable products on time. The …

A survey on the imperialist competitive algorithm metaheuristic: implementation in engineering domain and directions for future research

S Hosseini, A Al Khaled - Applied Soft Computing, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA), derived from the field of human social
evolution, is a component of swarm intelligence theory. It was first introduced in 2007 to deal …

A two-phase meta-heuristic for multiobjective flexible job shop scheduling problem with total energy consumption threshold

D Lei, M Li, L Wang - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) has been extensively considered; however,
multiobjective FJSP with energy consumption threshold is seldom investigated, the goal of …

A comprehensive review of flowshop group scheduling literature

JS Neufeld, JND Gupta, U Buscher - Computers & Operations Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Due to its practical relevance, the flowshop group scheduling problem has received much
attention in the academic and practice-oriented literature. As machines are grouped to cells …

A review of intelligent optimization for group scheduling problems in cellular manufacturing

Y Wang, Y Han, D Gong, H Li - Frontiers of Engineering Management, 2023 - Springer
Given that group technology can reduce the changeover time of equipment, broaden the
productivity, and enhance the flexibility of manufacturing, especially cellular manufacturing …

Integrated process planning and scheduling using an imperialist competitive algorithm

K Lian, C Zhang, L Gao, X Li - International Journal of Production …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Effective performance of modern manufacturing systems requires integrating process
planning and scheduling more tightly, which is consistently challenged by the intrinsic …

Discrete imperialist competitive algorithm for the resource-constrained hybrid flowshop problem with energy consumption

X Tao, J Li, T Huang, P Duan - Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2021 - Springer
The resource-constrained hybrid flowshop problem (RCHFS) has been investigated
thoroughly in recent years. However, the practical case that considers both resource …

A comprehensive literature review of the flowshop group scheduling problems: systematic and bibliometric reviews

N İnce, D Deliktaş, İ Hakan Selvi - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper deals with an overview of flowshop group scheduling problems in the
manufacturing environment. The aim of this paper is twofold:(i) making a comprehensive …

Integration of efficient multi-objective ant-colony and a heuristic method to solve a novel multi-objective mixed load school bus routing model

N Mokhtari, V Ghezavati - Applied Soft Computing, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, a novel mixed-load school bus routing problem (MLSBRP) is introduced.
MLSBRP assumes that several students from different schools can simultaneously take a …

Minimizing the total completion time in a distributed two stage assembly system with setup times

F Xiong, K Xing, F Wang, H Lei, L Han - Computers & Operations Research, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, a novel distributed two stage assembly flowshop scheduling problem
(DTSAFSP) is addressed. The objective is to assign jobs to several factories and schedule …