The rapid pace of developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is providing unprecedented
opportunities to enhance the performance of different industries and businesses, including …

In the last four decades the container as an essential part of a unit-load-concept has
achieved undoubted importance in international sea freight transportation. With ever …

This work addresses a variant of the job shop scheduling problem in which jobs need to be
transported to the machines processing their operations by a limited number of vehicles …

Driven by the recent advances in industry 4.0 and industrial artificial intelligence, Automated
Guided Vehicles (AGVs) has been widely used in flexible shop floor for material handling …

Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are used for the internal and external transport of
materials. Traditionally, AGVs were mostly used at manufacturing systems. Currently, AGVs …

This paper presents a review on design and control of automated guided vehicle systems.
We address most key related issues including guide-path design, determining vehicle …

A new initial population strategy has been developed to improve the genetic algorithm for
solving the well‐known combinatorial optimization problem, traveling salesman problem …

This paper concerns with the Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) considering the
transportation times of the jobs from one machine to another. The goal of a basic JSSP is to …

Sustainability in project operations such as financial, social and environmental sustainability
is one of the most prominent issues of the present times to address. The increased focus on …

Recent trends towards larger and more complex systems necessitate the use of
heterogeneous and flexible automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to fulfill the transport …