The resource transfer problem (RTP) is a modeling and solution framework for integrated complex scheduling and rich vehicle routing problems. It allows the modeling of a wide variety of scheduling problems, vehicle routing problems, their combination with integrated problems, as well as various...

This book examines the problem of maintenance planning and scheduling in industrial production systems. It presents two practically relevant, deterministic mathematical models: the capacitated planned maintenance problem (CPMP) and the weighted uncapacitated planned maintenance problem (WUPMP)....

This book provides a postgraduate audience the keys they need to understand and further develop a set of tools for the efficient computation of lower bounds and valid inequalities in integer programs and combinatorial optimization problems. After discussing the classical approaches described in...

This book deals with dynamic and stochastic methods for multi-project planning. Based on the idea of using queueing networks for the analysis of dynamic-stochastic multi-project environments this book addresses two problems: detailed scheduling of project activities, and integrated order...

Introduction -- The Two-Machine Flow Shop -- Transfer Lags in the Flow Shop -- The m-Machine Flow Shop -- The Machine Flow Shop -- The Hybrid Flow Shop -- The No-Wait Flow Shop -- Blocking or Limited Buffers in Flow Shops -- Flexible Flow Shops -- Reentrant Flow Shops -- The Robust Flow Shops --...

Finite First Hitting Time versus Stochastic convergence in Particle Swarm Optimisation -- Using Performance Profiles for the Analysis and Design of Benchmark Experiments -- Real-World Parameter Tuning using Factorial Design with Parameter Decomposition -- Evolving Pacing Strategies for Team...

The scope of this book is limited to heuristics, metaheuristics, and approximate methods and algorithms as applied to planning and scheduling problems. While it is not possible to give a comprehensive treatment of this topic in one book, the aim of this work is to provide the reader with a...

1 Einführung in die Problemstellung -- 1.1 Entscheidungsebenen der Produktionsplanung -- 1.2 Randbedingungen der operativen Produktionsplanung -- 1.3 Fallstudie: Chemische Industrie -- 2 Simultane und hierarchische Planung -- 2.1 Simultane Planung -- 2.2 Hierarchische Planung -- 3 Modellierung...