Keyword: scheduling

Found 2500 papers in total
Coordinating decentralized local schedulers in complex supply chain manufacturing
2008,
Motivated by scheduling challenges in back-end semiconductor manufacturing, we propose...
Integrated process planning and scheduling in a supply chain
2008,
This paper deals with the integration of process planning and scheduling, which is one...
Pruning in column generation for service vehicle dispatching
2008,
Column generation techniques have become a widely used technique to successfully solve...
A heuristic method for the vehicle routing problem with mixed deliveries and pickups
2008,
The vehicle routing problem with deliveries and pickups is a challenging extension to...
Impact of sugarcane supply scheduling on mill sugar production: A South African case study
2008,
The South African sugar industry has to improve its efficiency in order to remain...
Optimal production scheduling for the dairy industry
2008,
The increasing variety of products offered by the food industry has helped the...
A new constraint programming approach for the orthogonal packing problem
2008,
The two-dimensional orthogonal packing problem (2OPP) consists in determining if a set...
Ant colony optimization for power plant maintenance scheduling optimization – a five-station hydropower system
2008,
A number of algorithms have been developed for the optimization of power plant...
Comparison and hybridization of crossover operators for the nurse scheduling problem
2008,
In this paper, we present a hybrid genetic algorithm for the well-known nurse...
Optimal scheduling of peer-to-peer file dissemination
2008,
Peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay networks such as BitTorrent and Avalanche are increasingly...
Forming and scheduling jobs with capacitated containers in semiconductor manufacturing: Single machine problem
2008,
We study a scheduling problem motivated by the challenges observed in the newest...
Column generation heuristics for multiple machine, multiple orders per job scheduling problems
2008,
Front opening unified pods (FOUPs) are used to store and transport silicon wafers in...
Lot sizing and furnace scheduling in small foundries
2008,
A lot sizing and scheduling problem prevalent in small market-driven foundries is...
The hierarchical model for load balancing on two machines
2008,
Following previous work, we consider the hierarchical load balancing model on two...
A real time integrated dispatching logic for semiconductor material flow control considering multi-load automated material handling system
2008,
A semiconductor production system has sophisticated manufacturing operations and needs...
An operational planning model for petroleum products logistics under uncertainty
2008,
This paper shows how capacitated network may be used to analyze possible long-term...
Distance preserving recombination operator for Earth observation satellites operations scheduling
2008,
The paper describes an adaptation of a memetic algorithm to the problem of scheduling...
Integrated scheduling of handling equipment at automated container terminals
2008,
To improve the productivities of an automated container terminal, it is important to...
Cost-effective selection and multi-period scheduling of pavement maintenance and rehabilitation strategies
2008,
An optimization methodology is developed for determining the most cost-effective...
A monotone approximation algorithm for scheduling with precedence constraints
2008,
We provide a monotone O(m 2/3 ) -approximation algorithm for scheduling related...
An iterated local search heuristic for the capacitated prize-collecting travelling salesman problem
2008,
This paper considers a variant of the travelling salesman problem named the...
Modeling patient arrivals in community clinics
2008,
We develop improved methods for modeling and simulating the streams of patients...
Circulation of railway rolling stock: a branch-and-price approach
2008,
In this paper, we describe a model and a branch-and-price algorithm to determine an...
Heuristic approach to train rescheduling
2007,
Starting from the defined network topology and the timetable assigned beforehand, the...
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