Heuristic and metaheuristic methods for the parallel unrelated machines scheduling problem: a survey

M Ɖurasević, D Jakobović - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2023 - Springer
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 …

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 …

Heuristics with novel approaches for cyclical multiple parallel machine scheduling in sugarcane unloading systems

C Kusoncum, K Sethanan, R Pitakaso… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper focuses on a computational tool for scheduling sugarcane vehicles for dump
tippler machines operating at a sugar mill. This problem was defined as scheduling M …

Scheduling unrelated parallel machines with preventive maintenance and setup time: Multi-sub-colony artificial bee colony

D Lei, H Yang - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem (UPMSP) with preventive
maintenance (PM) and sequence dependent setup times (SDST) is investigated. A multi-sub …

A multi-stage stochastic programming for lot-sizing and scheduling under demand uncertainty

Z Hu, G Hu - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
A stochastic lot-sizing and scheduling problem with demand uncertainty is studied in this
paper. Lot-sizing determines the batch size for each product and scheduling decides the …

A two-stage stochastic programming model for lot-sizing and scheduling under uncertainty

Z Hu, G Hu - International Journal of Production Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
A lot-sizing and scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setups is addressed in this
paper. In the production system, manufactories receive raw materials from upstream sites …

Design of an efficient genetic algorithm for resource-constrained unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem with machine eligibility restrictions

M Afzalirad, M Shafipour - Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2018 - Springer
This study addresses a resource-constrained unrelated parallel machine scheduling
problem with machine eligibility restrictions. Majority of the traditional scheduling problems …

Sine-cosine algorithm to enhance simulated annealing for unrelated parallel machine scheduling with setup times

H Jouhari, D Lei, M AA Al-qaness, M Abd Elaziz… - Mathematics, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a hybrid method of Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm and Sine
Cosine Algorithm (SCA) to solve unrelated parallel machine scheduling problems …

Modified Harris Hawks optimizer for solving machine scheduling problems

H Jouhari, D Lei, MAA Al-qaness, MA Elaziz… - Symmetry, 2020 - mdpi.com
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 optimization approach for the lot sizing and scheduling problem in the brewery industry

TA Baldo, MO Santos, B Almada-Lobo… - Computers & Industrial …, 2014 - Elsevier
This study considers a production lot sizing and scheduling problem in the brewery industry.
The underlying manufacturing process can be basically divided into two main production …