Intro -- SCHEDULING PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS -- SCHEDULING PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTEGRATION OF OPERATION PLANNING AND SCHEDULING IN SUPPLY CHAIN SYSTEMS: A REVIEW -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. INTEGRATION IN SUPPLY CHAIN DECISION-MAKING -- 2.1. Classification of Modeling Approaches -- 2.2. Agent-Based Models for SCM -- 2.3. Challenges in SCM -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPLY HEURISTICS AND META-HEURISTICS TO LARGE-SCALE PROCESS BATCH SCHEDULING -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. General Review on Process Scheduling -- 1.2. Complexity of Process Scheduling -- 1.2.1. Processing Sequences -- 1.2.2. Intermediate Storage Policies -- 1.2.3. Changeovers -- 1.2.4. Operation Modes of Processing Tasks -- 1.2.5. Demand Patterns -- 1.2.6. Resource Considerations -- 1.2.7. Scheduling Objectives -- 1.3. Solution Methods for Process Scheduling -- 1.4. Strategies for Large-Scale Process Scheduling -- 1.5. Summary of the Research Background -- 1.6. Problems to be investigated -- 2. RULE-EVOLUTIONARY APPROACHES FOR SMSP -- 2.1. Problem Description -- 2.2. MILP Model for SMSP -- 2.2.1. Notations -- (A) Indices -- (B) Sets -- (C) Parameters -- (D) Variables -- Positive Variables: -- Binary Variables: -- 2.2.2. Milp Model -- (A) Problem Constraints -- (B) Objective Functions -- 2.2.3. Solutions for Example 2-1 -- 2.3. Heuristic Rules and Random Search -- 2.3.1. Seven Rules for the Minimization of Makespan Related Objectives -- 2.3.2. Performance of Different Rules -- 2.3.3. Procedure of the Genetic Algorithm -- 2.3.4. Simulation Experiments of GA Combined with Different Rules -- 2.4. Rule-Evolutionary Approaches -- 2.4.1. Mixed Chromosome and Evaluation Procedure in ARS -- 2.4.2. Observation of ARS in Solving Problems -- 2.5. Effectiveness of the Rule-Evolutionary Approaches for Large-Scale Examples.
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