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A GRASP approach to transporter scheduling for ship assembly block operations management

Park, Changkyu; Seo, Junyong - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 7 (2013) 3, pp. 312-332

the predetermined period. We develop the GRASP algorithm for transporter scheduling, because parallel machine scheduling … analyse some aspects of the developed GRASP algorithm, and compare the developed GRASP algorithm with other heuristics for … developed GRASP algorithm outperforms other heuristics and is a promising heuristic for transporter scheduling. [Received 9 …

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A reactive GRASP algorithm for the container loading problem with load-bearing constraints

Alonso, Maria Teresa; Alvarez-Valdes, Ramon; Tamarit, … - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 8 (2014) 5, pp. 669-694

. We have developed different heuristics for solving the problem and we have combined them into a GRASP algorithm. The …

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A review of recent variable selection methods in industrial and chemometrics applications

Anzanello, Michel Jose; Fogliatto, Flavio Sanson - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 8 (2014) 5, pp. 619-645

The massive amount of data collected from industrial processes has challenged researchers and practitioners, turning variable selection into a research topic of interest both in academia and in industry. The use of redundant, irrelevant, and noisy variables tends to compromise the performance of...

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Scheduling identical parallel batch processing machines to minimise makespan using genetic algorithms

Damodaran, Purushothaman; Hirani, Neal S.; … - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 3 (2009) 2, pp. 187-206

This paper aims to minimise the makespan of a set of identical batch processing machines in parallel. The batch processing machine can process a batch of jobs as long as the total size of all the jobs in the batch does not exceed its capacity. The processing time of the job and its size are...

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A statistics-based genetic algorithm for quality improvements of power supplies

Chan, K.Y.; Chan, K.W.; Pong, Glory T.Y.; Aydin, M.E.; … - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 3 (2009) 4, pp. 468-492

This paper presents a new statistics-based evolutionary algorithm to improve the qualities of power supplies, in which operational costs and the stability of the power supply are optimised to provide a highly smooth but low-cost power supply service to customers. The proposed method is...

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Production scheduling problem with delivery considerations in a mono-product supply chain environment to minimise the total joint cost

Grunder, Olivier; Wang, Deyun; Moudni, Abdellah El - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 7 (2013) 5, pp. 615-634

This paper chooses a supply chain which involves multiple supply links as the studied object. In each supply link, we consider an integrated scheduling problem in which a set of identical jobs are first processed on a single machine, and then batch delivered to a customer by a transporter. Each...

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A hybrid algorithm for fuzzy clustering

Che, Z.H. - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 6 (2012) 1, pp. 50-67

The fuzzy C-means (FCM) algorithm is a commonly used fuzzy clustering method which conducts data clustering by randomly selecting initial centroids. With larger data size or attribute dimensions, clustering results may be affected and more repetitive computations are required. To compensate the...

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An automatic method to reach consensus in a local context for AHP group decision making

Dong, Yucheng; Xu, Weijun; Xu, Weidong - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 7 (2013) 4, pp. 456-474

In the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), Saaty's consistency index is performed to ensure that the preference information, provided in an individual judgement matrix, is neither random nor illogical. Based on the extension of Saaty's consistency index, this paper proposes a consensus index to...

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Scheduling hybrid flow shop problem with non-fixed availability constraints

Besbes, Walid; Teghem, Jacques; Loukil, Taicir - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 4 (2010) 4, pp. 413-433

In this study, we deal with a k-stage hybrid flow shop scheduling problem under availability constraints (HFSPAC). In such a problem, machines are not continuously available due to preventive maintenance tasks. Our study aims to provide a good approximate solution to this specific problem with...

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An evolving hybrid neural approach for predicting job completion time in a semiconductor fabrication plant

Chen, Toly; Wang, Yi-Chi - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 4 (2010) 3, pp. 336-354

Predicting job completion time is an important but difficult task to a semiconductor fabrication plant. To further enhance its effectiveness, an evolving hybrid neural approach is proposed in this study. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, Production Simulation (PS) is also...

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