Due to the stubborn nature of the deterministic job-shop scheduling problem many solutions
proposed are of hybrid construction cutting across the traditional disciplines. The problem …

The scheduling of computer and manufacturing systems has been the subject of extensive
research for over forty years. In addition to computers and manufacturing, scheduling theory …

Charles Darwin stated the theory of natural evolution in the origin of species. Over several
generations, biological organisms evolve based on the principle of natural selection …

Control of Robot Manipulators in Joint Space addresses robot control in depth, treating a
range of model-based controllers in detail: proportional derivative; proportional integral …

This handbook provides full coverage of the most recent and advanced topics in scheduling,
assembling researchers from all relevant disciplines to facilitate new insights. Presented in …

This paper presents a hybrid genetic algorithm for the job shop scheduling problem. The
chromosome representation of the problem is based on random keys. The schedules are …

One of the basic scheduling problems, the open-shop scheduling problem has a broad
range of applications across different sectors. The problem concerns scheduling a set of …

We survey solution methods for the job shop scheduling problem with an emphasis on local
search. Both deterministic and randomized local search methods as well as the proposed …

Scheduling has become a major field within operational research with several hundred
publications appearing each year. This paper explores the historical development of the …

Due to the fact that no NP-complete problem can be solved in polynomial time (unless P=
NP), many approximability results (both positive and negative) of NP-hard optimization …