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 …

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 …

Variable Toll Pricing in Road Networks with Direct Search Meta-Heuristics -- Scatter Search for locating a treatment plant and …A Bicriteria Traveling Salesman Problem with Sequence Priorities -- Metaheuristics for Tourist Trip Planning -- Solving … Train Terminal -- Design and Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms for the No-wait Flow-shop Scheduling Problem …

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 …The aim of METAHEURISTICS: Progress in Complex Systems Optimization is to provide several different kinds of …

Simultaneous Lot-Sizing and Scheduling for flowline production systems -- General Lot-Sizing and Scheduling Problem for … Multiple production Stages -- Model reformulation & Heuristics …-Sizing and Scheduling Problem for Multiple production Stages (GLSPMS) to tackle the problem of shifting bottlenecks. Especially …

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 … problems. Still, there are a large number of research challenges in the area of metaheuristics. These challenges range from …