Swarm intelligence (SI), an integral part in the field of artificial intelligence, is gradually
gaining prominence, as more and more high complexity problems require solutions which …

Creating a plan for a software project is a recurring activity in software development
organizations that plays a critical role in the project success. When creating a plan for a …

Software project scheduling is the problem of allocating employees to tasks in a software
project. Due to the large scale of current software projects, many studies have investigated …

Abstract Ant Colony Extended (ACE) is a novel algorithm belonging to the general Ant
Colony Optimisation (ACO) framework. Two specific features of ACE are: the division of …

The existing literature of search-based software project scheduling merely studied to
schedule a small to medium-scale project in static scenarios, while little work has …

This work provides a systematic literature review of the software project scheduling problem,
in the context of search-based software engineering, and summarizes the main models …

Swarm intelligence-based optimisation algorithms, inspired by the collective intelligent
behaviours of biology groups, have been widely recognised as efficient optimisers for many …

Software project scheduling plays an important role in reducing the cost and duration of
software projects. It is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that has been …

The learning and forgetting ability, as the inherent characteristics of the employees, have a
great impact on the software development process. By using the idea of WLC learning and …

Timetabling is a managerial problem that recurringly appears in various domains such as
education, transport, sports, and staff management. The combinatorial nature of this problem …