Scheduling involving no-wait in process plays an important role in industries such as plastic,
chemical, and pharmaceutical. Moreover, many scheduling problems in other industries …

Efficiently scheduling data processing jobs on distributed compute clusters requires complex
algorithms. Current systems use simple, generalized heuristics and ignore workload …

In this paper, a discrete particle swarm optimization (DPSO) algorithm is presented to solve
the no-wait flowshop scheduling problem with both makespan and total flowtime criteria. The …

This paper proposes an effective new hybrid ant colony algorithm based on crossover and
mutation mechanism for no-wait flow shop scheduling with the criterion to minimize the …

With the development of globalization, distributed manufacturing has become one of the
main modes of manufacturing. The situation in which a number of heterogeneous factories …

N patients must be planned in an operating theatre over a medium term horizon (one or two
weeks). This operating theatre is composed of several operating rooms and of one recovery …

In this paper, a discrete Water Wave Optimization algorithm (DWWO) is proposed to solve
the no-wait flowshop scheduling problem (NWFSP) with respect to the makespan criterion …

We consider a real-life problem of scheduling clients orders in the production of concrete
blocks in a factory of building industry. This problem can be modelled as a hybrid flow shop …

This paper proposes a Tabu-mechanism improved iterated greedy (TMIIG) algorithm to
solve the no-wait flowshop scheduling problem with a makespan criterion. The idea of …

This paper presents a novel discrete differential evolution (DDE) algorithm for solving the no-
wait flow shop scheduling problems with makespan and maximum tardiness criteria. First …