Scheduling involving setup times/costs plays an important role in today's modern
manufacturing and service environments for the delivery of reliable products on time. The …

The flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization
problem, which has wide applications in the real world. The complexity and relevance of the …

This new edition provides an up-to-date coverage of important theoretical models in the
scheduling literature as well as significant scheduling problems that occur in the real world …

A unified view of metaheuristics This book provides a complete background on
metaheuristics and shows readers how to design and implement efficient algorithms to solve …

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 …

Conic optimization is a significant and thriving research area within the optimization
community. Conic optimization is the general class of problems concerned with optimizing a …

Decision makers in many areas, from industry to engineering and the social sector, face an
increasing need to consider multiple, conflicting objectives in their decision processes. In …

Sustainability considerations in manufacturing scheduling, which is traditionally influenced
by service oriented performance metrics, have rarely been adopted in the literature. This …

The scheduling of flow shops with multiple parallel machines per stage, usually referred to
as the hybrid flow shop (HFS), is a complex combinatorial problem encountered in many …

In recent years, the deployment of Cloud Computing (CC) has become more popular both in
research and industry applications, arising form various fields including e-health …