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 …

There needs to be more clarity about when and how the digital twin approach could benefit
the food supply chains. In this study, we develop and solve an integrated problem of …

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 …

With the continuous development of national economies, problems of various energy
consumption levels and pollution emissions in manufacturing have attracted attention from …

With the intensification of globalization, the competition among various manufacturing
enterprises has become increasingly fierce, enterprises are developing in the direction of …

The hybrid flow shop and distributed flow shop problems have been extensively studied due
to their wide industrial applications. However, the distributed heterogeneous hybrid flow …

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 …

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 …

Distributed scheduling problems are among the most investigated research topics in the
fields of Operational Research, and represents one of the greatest challenges faced by …

Nowadays in Supply Chain (SC) networks, a high level of risk comes from SC partners. An
effective risk management process becomes as a consequence mandatory, especially at the …