Keyword: heuristics

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Cross-facility management of production and transportation planning problem
Cross-facility management of production and transportation planning problem
2006,
This paper studies an integrated production and transportation planning problem in a...
Opportunistic supply chain formation from qualified partners for a new market demand
Opportunistic supply chain formation from qualified partners for a new market demand
2006,
This paper addresses the problem of short-term supply chain design using the idle...
A continuous approach to considering uncertainty in facility design
A continuous approach to considering uncertainty in facility design
2006,
This paper presents a formulation of the facilities block layout problem which...
Simulated annealing heuristics for the dynamic facility layout problem
Simulated annealing heuristics for the dynamic facility layout problem
2006,
In today's economy, manufacturing plants must be able to operate efficiently and...
A heuristic rule for relocating blocks
A heuristic rule for relocating blocks
2006,
One of the most important objectives of the storage and pickup operations in block...
Capacitated facility location problem with general setup cost
Capacitated facility location problem with general setup cost
2006,
This paper presents an extension of the capacitated facility location problem (CFLP),...
The facility and transfer points location problem
The facility and transfer points location problem
2005,
In this paper, we investigate the location of a facility and several transfer points...
Production–inventory scheduling using ant system metaheuristic
Production–inventory scheduling using ant system metaheuristic
2006,
The present paper presents the algorithmic solution, based on an Ant System...
Modelling and heuristics of FMS scheduling with multiple objectives
Modelling and heuristics of FMS scheduling with multiple objectives
2006,
The performance of a scheduling system, in practice, is not evaluated to satisfy a...
A new and practical heuristic for master production scheduling creation
A new and practical heuristic for master production scheduling creation
2006,
This paper describes the most common aspects, parameters, and objectives involved in...
Scheduling two parallel machines with a single server: the general case
Scheduling two parallel machines with a single server: the general case
2006,
This paper considers the problem of scheduling two-operation non-preemptable jobs on...
An enhanced timetabling procedure for the no-wait job shop problem: a complete local search approach
An enhanced timetabling procedure for the no-wait job shop problem: a complete local search approach
2006,
In this paper we consider the no-wait job shop problem with a makespan objective. This...
A heuristic approach for two-machine no-wait flowshop scheduling with due dates and class setups
A heuristic approach for two-machine no-wait flowshop scheduling with due dates and class setups
2006,
This paper studies the two-machine flowshop scheduling problem with class setups in a...
Hierarchical minimization of completion time variance and makespan in jobshops
Hierarchical minimization of completion time variance and makespan in jobshops
2006,
This paper addresses the problem of minimizing makespan for a given set of n jobs to...
Scheduling two-stage hybrid flow shop with availability constraints
Scheduling two-stage hybrid flow shop with availability constraints
2006,
Most of the literature on scheduling assumes that machines are always available....
Permutation flowshop scheduling problems with maximal and minimal time lags
Permutation flowshop scheduling problems with maximal and minimal time lags
2006,
In this paper, we study permutation flowshop problems with minimal and/or maximal time...
Setting due dates in a stochastic single machine environment
Setting due dates in a stochastic single machine environment
2006,
A set of n jobs with statistically independent random processing times has to be...
A scatter search approach to the optimum disassembly sequence problem
A scatter search approach to the optimum disassembly sequence problem
2006,
One of the most difficult problems faced by OR researchers in the reverse logistics...
A polynomial-time approximation scheme for the two-machine flow shop scheduling problem with an availability constraint
A polynomial-time approximation scheme for the two-machine flow shop scheduling problem with an availability constraint
2006,
We study the problem of scheduling n preemptable jobs in a two-machine flow shop where...
Benchmark-problem instances for static scheduling of task graphs with communication delays on homogeneous multiprocessor systems
Benchmark-problem instances for static scheduling of task graphs with communication delays on homogeneous multiprocessor systems
2006,
Scheduling program tasks on processors is at the core of the efficient use of...
Evolutionary heuristics and an algorithm for the two-stage assembly scheduling problem to minimize makespan with setup times
Evolutionary heuristics and an algorithm for the two-stage assembly scheduling problem to minimize makespan with setup times
2006,
In this paper we address the two-stage assembly flowshop scheduling problem with...
Particle swarm optimization and differential evolution for the single machine total weighted tardiness problem
Particle swarm optimization and differential evolution for the single machine total weighted tardiness problem
2006,
In this paper we present two recent metaheuristics, particle swarm optimization and...
A heuristic algorithm to minimize total weighted tardiness on a single machine with release times
A heuristic algorithm to minimize total weighted tardiness on a single machine with release times
2005,
This paper attempts to solve a single machine-scheduling problem, in which the...
Differential evolution for sequencing and scheduling optimization
Differential evolution for sequencing and scheduling optimization
2006,
This paper presents a stochastic method based on the differential evolution (DE)...
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