Abstract The Distributed Permutation Flowshop Scheduling (DPFS) problem is one of the
fastest-growing topics in the scheduling literature, which in turn is among the most prolific …

Multi-factory production planning and scheduling problems have been increasingly studied
by scholars recently due to market uncertainty, technological trends like Industry 4.0 and …

Urbanization and population growth have resulted in a significant increase in the amount of
generated construction and demolition (C&D) waste worldwide. Improper C&D waste …

Research on scheduling problems is an evergreen challenge for industrial engineers. The
growth of digital technologies opens the possibility to collect and analyze great amount of …

The growing environmental concerns, excessive utilization of natural resources, and high
energy consumption have put a severe pressure on the construction industry to adopt new …

With the advancement of the global economy, there is a growing focus on distributed
manufacturing. This study addresses the complex challenges posed by the distributed …

Scheduling in distributed production environments is becoming widespread in recent years
due to the increasing advantages of multi-factory manufacture. This paper investigates the …

The scheduling problems of distributed production have received increasing attention in
recent years. To coordinate the scheduling of production and transportation, we propose a …

In the context of simulation-based optimisation, this paper reviews recent work related to the
role of metaheuristics, matheuristics (combinations of exact optimisation methods with …

We consider the distributed blocking flowshop scheduling problem (DBFSP) which is a
meaningful generalization of the blocking flowshop scheduling problem in the distributed …