Hyper-heuristics have emerged as a way to raise the level of generality of search techniques
for computational search problems. This is in contrast to many approaches, which represent …

Operational Research (OR) techniques have been applied, from the early stages of the
discipline, to a wide variety of issues in education. At the government level, these include …

In the past decade, considerable advances have been made in the field of computational
intelligence and operations research. However, the majority of these optimisation …

Hyper-heuristics comprise a set of approaches that aim to automate the development of
computational search methodologies. This chapter overviews previous categorisations of …

A variety of Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques blends with one or more techniques
from Evolutionary Computation (EC) resulting in hybrid methods classified according to their …

As the development of economic globalization, the distributed manufacturing has become
common in modern industries. The scheduling of production resources in multiple …

Scheduling is one of the problems that has attracted the attention of many researchers over
the years. The University Course Timetabling Problem (UCTP) is a highly constrained real …

Distributed manufacturing is increasingly common due to economic globalization. It has
important practical significance to optimize global supply chains by considering cooperative …

Simulated annealing is a method of solving uncontrolled and controlled optimization
problems. This method simulates the physical process of heating an object and then slowly …

Educational timetabling problems, namely, university examination timetabling, university
course timetabling and school timetabling, are combinatorial optimization problems …