Literature review regarding Ant Colony Optimization applied to scheduling problems: Guidelines for implementation and directions for future research

RFT Neto, M Godinho Filho - Engineering applications of artificial …, 2013 - Elsevier
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 …

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 …

Bio-inspired multi-agent systems for reconfigurable manufacturing systems

P Leitão, J Barbosa, D Trentesaux - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2012 - Elsevier
The current market's demand for customization and responsiveness is a major challenge for
producing intelligent, adaptive manufacturing systems. The Multi-Agent System (MAS) …

A two-stage ant colony optimization algorithm to minimize the makespan on unrelated parallel machines with sequence-dependent setup times

JP Arnaout, G Rabadi, R Musa - Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2010 - Springer
This paper addresses the non-preemptive unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem
with machine-dependent and sequence-dependent setup times. All jobs are available at …

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 …

Fixed set search application for minimizing the makespan on unrelated parallel machines with sequence-dependent setup times

R Jovanovic, S Voß - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

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 …

ABC-based manufacturing scheduling for unrelated parallel machines with machine-dependent and job sequence-dependent setup times

SW Lin, KC Ying - Computers & Operations Research, 2014 - Elsevier
To date, the topic of unrelated parallel machine scheduling problems with machine-
dependent and job sequence-dependent setup times has received relatively little research …

An evolutionary simulation-based optimization approach for dispatching scheduling

P Korytkowski, T Wiśniewski, S Rymaszewski - … Modelling Practice and …, 2013 - Elsevier
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 …

An ant colony optimization approach to a permutational flowshop scheduling problem with outsourcing allowed

RFT Neto, M Godinho Filho - Computers & Operations Research, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper deals with the scheduling problem of minimizing the makespan in a
permutational flowshop environment with the possibility of outsourcing certain jobs. It …