With the development of the global economy and the enhancement of environmental
awareness, energy-efficient permutation flow shop scheduling gets more attention …

Decision aspects concerning the introduction of fast-charging city electric buses are studied
in this paper. The main studied problem consists of determining a fleet of electric buses and …

Scheduling jobs in a permutation flow shop (PFS) environment is one of the most studied
problems in scheduling theory and practice. In this paper, we propose a new efficient …

Many industrial practitioners are facing the challenge of solving large-scale scheduling
problems within a limited time. In this paper, we propose a novel bilevel scheduler based on …

Abstract System-wide optimization of distributed manufacturing operations enables process
improvement beyond the standalone and individual optimality norms. This study addresses …

This paper addresses the green permutation flow shop scheduling problem (GPFSP) with
energy consumption consideration, aiming to minimize the maximum completion time and …

Metaheuristics can benefit from analyzing patterns and regularities in data to perform more
effective searches in the solution space. In line with the emerging trend in the optimization …

Scheduling of production jobs falls into the area of planning, which, according to Henri
Fayol's conception, is one of the basic functions of management. The permutation flow-shop …

The permutation flow-shop scheduling problem (PFSP) is an important problem in
production industry. The problem has been a subject of many research and various …

The NEH heuristic is commonly regarded as the best constructive heuristic for solving the
permutation flow-shop scheduling problem (PFSP) with the makespan criterion. Since its …