In this work we present a review and comparative evaluation of heuristics and
metaheuristics for the well-known permutation flowshop problem with the makespan …

Large manufacturing firms operate more than one production center. As a result, in relation
to scheduling problems, which factory manufactures which product is an important …

This paper deals with the development of customised and realistic manufacturing
scheduling systems. More specifically, we focus onto a key element that may help driving …

The distributed permutation flowshop problem has been recently proposed as a
generalization of the regular flowshop setting where more than one factory is available to …

Industries require, nowadays, to be more adaptable to unforeseen real-time events as well
as to the rapid evolution of their market (eg multiplication of customers, increasingly …

Obtaining economic and reliable schedules constitutes the core of excellence in customer
service and of efficiency in manufacturing operations. While few areas have been more …

Teaching–learning based optimization (TLBO) algorithm has been recently proposed in the
literature as a novel population oriented meta-heuristic algorithm. It has been tested on …

This paper aims to contribute to the recent research efforts to bridge the gap between the
theory and the practice of scheduling by modelizing a realistic manufacturing environment …

Metaheuristic algorithms offer unique opportunities in problem solving. Although they do not
guarantee optimality, it has been shown by numerous publications that they can achieve …

Continuous flow-shop scheduling problems circumscribe an important class of sequencing
problems in the field of production planning. The problem considered here is to find a …