Scheduling involving no-wait in process plays an important role in industries such as plastic,
chemical, and pharmaceutical. Moreover, many scheduling problems in other industries …

Scheduling problems are one of the widely used problems which have both academic and
real-life applications. In academic fields, it can be used to test the efficiency of a newly …

As economic globalization, large manufacturing enterprises build production centers in
different places to maximize profit. Therefore, scheduling problems among multiple …

This paper proposes an effective new hybrid ant colony algorithm based on crossover and
mutation mechanism for no-wait flow shop scheduling with the criterion to minimize the …

Hybrid flow shop scheduling problem (HFSP) has been extensively discussed and the main
objectives are related to completion time. The reduction of energy consumption should be …

Distributed scheduling problems have attracted much attention in recent years; however,
distributed hybrid flow shop scheduling problem (DHFSP) is seldom investigated. In this …

Two-stage hybrid flow shop scheduling has been extensively considered in single-factory
settings. However, the distributed two-stage hybrid flow shop scheduling problem (DTHFSP) …

Hybrid flow shop scheduling problem has been extensively considered in single factory;
however, distributed hybrid flow shop scheduling problem (DHFSP) is seldom investigated …

Two-stage hybrid flowshop scheduling in a single factory has been considered fully;
however, the distributed two-stage hybrid flowshop scheduling problem (DTHFSP) is seldom …

In this paper, an m-stage hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with limited workforce in
charge of performing setup operations is addressed. Indeed, such workforce represents a …