The scheduling of computer and manufacturing systems has been the subject of extensive
research for over forty years. In addition to computers and manufacturing, scheduling theory …

This paper and its companion (Part II) concern the scheduling of jobs with cost penalties for
both early and late completion. In Part I, we consider the problem of minimizing the weighted …

Nature has been considered as an inspiration of several recent meta-heuristic algorithms.
This paper firstly studies and mimics the behavior of Scottish red deer in order to develop a …

Although several meta-heuristics have been developed in the last two decades, most of
them are population-based, undergo many steps along with several parameters that make …

Michael L. Pinedo Theory, Algorithms, and Systems Sixth Edition Page 1 Scheduling Michael L.
Pinedo Theory, Algorithms, and Systems Sixth Edition Page 2 Scheduling Page 3 Michael L …

A comprehensive guide to a powerful new analytical tool by two of its foremost innovators
The past decade has witnessed many exciting advances in the use of genetic algorithms …

This book is an outgrowth of an earlier text that appeared in 1999 under the title “Operations
Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing and Services”, coauthored with Xiuli Chao …

Genetic Algorithms (GA) as a tool for a search and optimizing methodology has now
reached a mature stage. It has found many useful applications in both the scientific and …

We aim at providing a unified framework of the common due date assignment and
scheduling problems in the deterministic case by surveying the literature concerning the …

In this paper we give a survey of the most important results on multicriteria scheduling that
have appeared in the literature or are to appear. We provide an extensive introduction …