Due to the stubborn nature of the deterministic job-shop scheduling problem many solutions
proposed are of hybrid construction cutting across the traditional disciplines. The problem …

An overview of some fuzzy set-based approaches to scheduling is proposed, emphasizing
two distinct uses of fuzzy sets: representing preference profiles and modelling uncertainty …

Due to the influence of dynamic changes in the manufacturing environment, a single
dispatching rule (SDR) cannot consistently attain better results than other rules for dynamic …

Fuzzy set theory has been used to model systems that are hard to define precisely. As a
methodology, fuzzy set theory incorporates imprecision and subjectivity into the model …

This study aims at building an efficient agent-based dynamic scheduling for real-world
manufacturing systems with various products, processes, and disturbances. Ant colony …

Scheduling has been defined as" the art of assigning resources to tasks in order to insure
the termination of these tasks in a reasonable amount of time"(1). According to French (2) …

ABSTRACT A great deal of research has been focused on solving the job-shop problem
(ΠJ), over the last forty years, resulting in a wide variety of approaches. Recently, much effort …

Most job shop scheduling methods reported in the literature usually address the static
scheduling problem. These methods do not consider multiple criteria, nor do they …

Since the late 1970s when the first collection of papers on scheduling of flexible
manufacturing systems (FMSs) has been published, it has been one of the most popular …

This paper proposes an extension of the constraint-based approach to job-shop scheduling,
that accounts for the flexibility of temporal constraints and the uncertainty of operation …