Scheduling involving setup times/costs plays an important role in today's modern
manufacturing and service environments for the delivery of reliable products on time. The …

This paper focus on artificial intelligence approaches to NP-hard job shop scheduling (JSS)
problem. In the literature successful approaches of artificial intelligence techniques such as …

Variable neighbourhood search (VNS) is a metaheuristic, or a framework for building
heuristics, based upon systematic changes of neighbourhoods both in descent phase, to …

This article addresses the flexible job-shop scheduling problem (FJSP) to minimize
makespan. The FJSP is strongly NP-hard and consists of two sub-problems. The first one is …

This paper considers a profitable heterogeneous vehicle routing problem with cross-docking
(PHVRPCD). In the real world, it is not possible to serve all customers and suppliers. Based …

This paper addresses multi-objective (MO) optimization of a single-model assembly line
balancing problem (ALBP) where the operation times of tasks are unknown variables and …

Develo** reconfigurable machine tools (RMTs) has attracted increasing attention recently.
An RMT can be utilized as a group of machines, which can obtain different configurations to …

This paper studies a new variant of integrated production scheduling and vehicle routing
problem where production of customer orders are performed under job-shop environment …

This paper proposes several novel hybrid ant colony optimization (ACO)-based algorithms
to resolve multi-objective job-shop scheduling problem with equal-size lot splitting. The main …