A great deal of work has been done to analyze the problem of robot move sequencing and
part scheduling in robotic flowshop cells. We examine the recent developments in this …

Fully automated production cells consisting of flexible machines and a material handling
robot have become commonplace in contemporary manufacturing systems. Much research …

The first comprehensive survey paper on scheduling problems with separate setup times or
costs was conducted by [Allahverdi, A., Gupta, JND, Aldowaisan, T., 1999. A review of …

In the vast majority of the published article on flexible job shop scheduling problems (FJSP),
machines are the only resources with limited capacities. There are also a sizable number of …

Parallel machine scheduling problems with common servers have many industrial
applications. In this paper, we study a generalized problem of scheduling with a common …

Scheduling with setup times or setup costs plays a crucial role in todays modern
manufacturing and service environments where reliable products/services are to be …

We consider a container terminal loading and unloading containers to and from a set of
ships, and storing the containers in the terminal yard. Each ship is served by multiple quay …

Scheduling is concerned with allocating limited resources to tasks to optimize certain
objective functions. Due to the popularity of the Total Quality Management concept, on-time …

Majority of parallel machine scheduling studies consider machine as the only resource.
However, in most real-life manufacturing environments, jobs may require additional …

In this survey we review the current complexity status of basic cyclic scheduling models. We
start with the formulations of three fundamental cyclic scheduling problems, namely the …