Job shop scheduling problem (JSSP) is a thriving area of scheduling research, which has
been concerned and studied widely by scholars in engineering and academic fields. This …

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 …

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 …

The manufacturing industry directly reflects the productivity level of a country and plays an
important role in economic and social development. However, with the development of the …

The first comprehensive survey paper on scheduling problems with separate setup times or
costs was conducted by [Allahverdi, A., Gupta, JND, Aldowaisan, T., 1999. A review of …

Production scheduling is a crucial task in modern steel plants. The scheduling of a wire rod
and bar rolling process is challenging in many steel plants, which has a direct impact on …

The distributed permutation flowshop scheduling problem (DPFSP) has been a hot issue in
recent years. Due to the practical relevance of sequence-dependent setup time (SDST), we …

Constraint Programming is a problem-solving paradigm that establishes a clear distinction
between two pivotal aspects of a problem:(1) a precise definition of the constraints that …

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 …

Industries require, nowadays, to be more adaptable to unforeseen real-time events as well
as to the rapid evolution of their market (eg multiplication of customers, increasingly …