Group scheduling problems have attracted much attention owing to their many practical
applications. This work proposes a new bi-objective serial-batch group scheduling problem …

Proper disassembly operations organization and workstation assignment can help increase
the efficiency of disassembly systems that are critical for recycling and remanufacturing of …

Self-service spatiotemporal crowdsourcing (SSC), a booming variant of spatiotemporal
crowdsourcing (SC), emerges because of the vigorous development of the mobile Internet …

To reduce the computational burden in the scheduling of robotic cellular manufacturing
(RCM) systems based on Petri nets'(PNs) reachability graphs, existing methods mainly focus …

Last-mile logistics is a crucial phase of online commodity trades. In last-mile logistics, one of
the critical problems is to reasonably assign couriers to distribute the products in time in …

Deadlock resolution strategies based on siphon control are widely investigated. Their
computational efficiency largely depends on siphon computation. Mixed-integer …

There is a growing concern in recycling plants for minimizing the negative environmental
impacts (such as carbon emissions) of disassembling end-of-life products. Uncertainty …

Robotized manufacturing systems consisting of several processing machines and a robot for
transporting jobs between the machines have been widely used in mechanical and …

This work investigates a scheduling problem of deadlock-prone flexible manufacturing
systems modeled by place-timed Petri nets. It proposes an anytime branch and bound …

To ensure wafer quality, engineers have to impose wafer residency time constraints and
chamber cleaning operations on cluster tools; this has been widely used in semiconductor …