This book examines the problem of maintenance planning and scheduling in industrial production systems. It presents two … uncapacitated planned maintenance problem (WUPMP). It introduces specific optimization algorithms such as construction heuristics …, Lagrangean and tabu search metaheuristics. A problem independent hybrid approach links and alternates between two Lagrangean …

Besides scheduling problems for single and parallel machines and shop scheduling problems, this book covers advanced … scheduling and problems with multi-purpose machines. Among the methods used to solve these problems are linear programming …, dynamic programming, branch-and-bound algorithms, and local search heuristics. The text goes on to summarize complexity …

Although several monographs and edited volumes have discussed scheduling in general, most of these works survey the … field by contributing a single chapter to production systems like flow shops. Flow Shop Scheduling: Theoretical Results … scheduling and in optimization in general …

-objective Production Planning of Perishable Goods -- Brain cine-MRI Registration using MLSDO Dynamic Optimization Algorithm -- GRASP with …Metaheuristics have been a very active research topic for more than two decades. During this time many new … other words, metaheuristics are nowadays established as one of the main search paradigms for tackling computationally hard …

The scope of this book is limited to heuristics, metaheuristics, and approximate methods and algorithms as applied to … solution methods used in the different chapters of the book also spread from well-established heuristics and metaheuristics … planning and scheduling problems. While it is not possible to give a comprehensive treatment of this topic in one book, the aim …

Algorithm for Large-scale Set Covering Problems -- Log-Truck Scheduling with a Tabu Search Strategy -- Nature-inspired methods … Parallel Cooperative Metaheuristics -- Algorithm Tuning, Algorithm Design and Software Tools -- Using Experimental Design to …-Relinking for the Tsp -- Using a Randomised Iterative Improvement Algorithm with Composite Neighbourhood Structures for the …