Most of the problems defined in the scheduling literature do not yet take into account the energy consumption of manufacturing processes, as in most of the variants with tardiness objectives. This study handles scheduling ...

Permutation flow shop scheduling problem (PFSP) is a well-known problem in the scheduling literature. Even though many multi-objective PFSPs are presented in the literature with the objectives related to production efficiency ...

The permutation flowshop scheduling problem (PFSP) has been extensively explored in scheduling literature because it has many real-world industrial implementations. In some studies, multiple objectives related to production ...

This paper deals with a new automatic guided vehicle (AGV) scheduling problem from the material handling process in a linear manufacturing workshop. The problem is to determine a sequence of Cells for AGV to travel to ...

The hybrid flowshop scheduling problem (HFSP) has been widely studied in the literature, as it has many real-life applications in industry. Even though many solution approaches have been presented for the HFSP with makespan ...

In this paper, we propose a variable block insertion heuristic (VBIH) algorithm to solve the permutation flow shop scheduling problem (PFSP). The VBIH algorithm removes a block of jobs from the current solution. It applies ...

This study considers single machine scheduling with the machine operating at varying speed levels for different jobs with release dates and sequence-dependent setup times, in order to examine the trade-off between makespan ...

1 The hybrid flosshop scheduling problem (HFSP) has been extensively studied in the literature, due to its complexity and real-life applicability. Various exact and heuristic algorithms have been developed for the HFSP, ...

Most of the problems defined in the scheduling literature do not yet take into account the energy consumption of manufacturing processes, as in most of the variants with tardiness objectives. This study handles scheduling ...

Permutation flow shop scheduling problem (PFSP) is a well-known problem in the scheduling literature. Even though many multi-objective PFSPs are presented in the literature with the objectives related to production efficiency ...

The aim of this paper is to apply the variable block insertion heuristic (VBIH) algorithm recently proposed in the literature for solving the quadratic assignment problem (QAP). The VBIH algorithm is concerned with making ...

This paper proposes a populated variable block insertion heuristic (PVBIH) algorithm for solving the permutation flowshop scheduling problem with the makespan criterion. The PVBIH algorithm starts with a minimum block size ...

Recently, iterated greedy algorithms have been successfully applied to solve a variety of combinatorial optimization problems. This paper presents iterated greedy algorithms for solving the blocking flowshop scheduling ...

A discrete artificial bee colony (DABC) algorithm for the permutation flowshop scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup times (PFSP-SDST) is presented in this paper. PFSP-SDST is an important problem that has ...

In this paper, an ensemble of differential evolution algorithms based on a variable neighborhood search algorithm (EDE-VNS) is proposed so as to solve the constrained real parameter-optimization problems. The performance ...

This paper presents a multi-objective self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm to solve the form-finding problem of high-rise building design in the conceptual phase. The aim of the research is to reach suitable ...

In this paper, a memetic algorithm with a variable block insertion heuristic is presented to solve the single machine total weighted tardiness problem with sequence dependent setup times. Together with the traditional ...

The aim of the research is to find a feasible set of theatre hall design alternatives for two objectives, which are the total cost and the reverberation time, subject to several constraints. We formulate the problem as a ...

This study addresses flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) with two constraints, namely fuzzy processing time and new job insertion. The uncertainty of processing time and new job insertion are two scheduling related ...

This paper is concerned with the application of computational intelligence techniques to the conceptual design and development of a large-scale floating settlement. The settlement in question is a design for the area of ...