With the advent of new technologies in both hardware and software, we are in the need of a
new type of application that requires huge computation power and minimal delay …

Multiple jobs are processed simultaneously on a given batch processing machine in parallel
batching. The resulting batch is called a p-batch. Batching can lead to reduced production …

Network function virtualization (NFV) has drawn significant attention from both industry and
academia as an important shift in telecommunication service provisioning. By decoupling …

Abstract The Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (RCPSP) is a general
problem in scheduling that has a wide variety of applications in manufacturing, production …

Project Management is becoming increasingly crucial in competitive environments such as
manufacturing and the service industries. The Resource-Constrained Multi-Project …

Project management as a discipline possesses a rich body of literature characterized by
early determinism and later expansion to broader contexts aided by paradigmatic, thematic …

Scheduling of tasks in cloud computing is an NP-hard optimization problem. Load balancing
of non-preemptive independent tasks on virtual machines (VMs) is an important aspect of …

Task allocation is an important aspect of many multi-robot systems. The features and
complexity of multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) problems are dictated by the requirements …

Michael L. Pinedo Theory, Algorithms, and Systems Sixth Edition Page 1 Scheduling Michael L.
Pinedo Theory, Algorithms, and Systems Sixth Edition Page 2 Scheduling Page 3 Michael L …

Swarm intelligence is a relatively new approach to problem solving that takes inspiration
from the social behaviors of insects and of other animals. In particular, ants have inspired a …