Ant Colony Optimization is a swarm intelligence approach that has proved to be useful in
solving several classes of discrete and continuous optimization problems. One set, called …

Scheduling has an immense effect on various areas of human lives, be it though its
application in manufacturing and production industry, transportation, workforce allocation, or …

生产过程调度是自动化, 工业工程和管理工程等领域的热点研究方向. 迄今, 在生产过程调度方法
研究上已取得很多成果, 其主要涉及生产过程调度问题建模和优化方法. 本文在对常用生产过程 …

The current market's demand for customization and responsiveness is a major challenge for
producing intelligent, adaptive manufacturing systems. The Multi-Agent System (MAS) …

This paper addresses the non-preemptive unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem
with machine-dependent and sequence-dependent setup times. All jobs are available at …

This paper presents a hybrid method of Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm and Sine
Cosine Algorithm (SCA) to solve unrelated parallel machine scheduling problems …

This paper addresses the problem of minimizing the makespan on unrelated parallel
machines with sequence-dependent setup times. The term unrelated machines is used in …

To date, the topic of unrelated parallel machine scheduling problems with machine-
dependent and job sequence-dependent setup times has received relatively little research …

Scheduling can be described as a decision-making process. It is applied in various
applications, such as manufacturing, airports, and information processing systems. More so …

An effective scheduling decision is one of the key factors towards improving the efficiency of
a system's performance, particularly in the instance of multiple products thus dispatching …