using a distance-based criterion and their number is progressively decreased to zero. Our algorithm outperforms the best …

advantage. Customized goods and services can only be achieved through sophisticated data mining techniques that can define the …

This paper considers minimizing total completion time in a two-stage flowshop scheduling problem with m identical … time at Stage 2 is NP – hard and gave a two-approximation algorithm in O(n3) time. In the case that all jobs have arbitrary … processing time at Stage 1 and at Stage 2, we give an approximation algorithm after pointing out that in this case the problem is …

In this paper, we conduct a study of the job-shop scheduling problem with reverse flows. This NP-hard problem is …

, preventive maintenance is required. In this paper we discuss the Preventive Maintenance Scheduling Problem (PMSP), where (short … mathematical formulation for this problem and some greedy heuristics to solve it fast. Moreover, we compare the performance of … these heuristics with the optimal solution using some randomly generated instances. …

significantly improved participant satisfaction and equity when compared with traditional conference- and class-scheduling …

for scheduling and a proof that a much more efficient algorithm is unlikely to exist. For both the make-to-stock and make …The classical scheduling literature considers many problems where a given set of jobs must be processed at minimum cost … practical situations where efficient scheduling affects revenue in much more general and realistic ways. First, we study two …

with the permutation flow-shop problem A comparison of same well-known flow-shop heuristics is carried out and a simple and … fast dispatching rule is proposed. Regarding the more simple and faster heuristics, the proposed dispatching rule …

For the basic problem of non-preemptively scheduling n independent jobs on m identical parallel machines so that the …-known longest-first heuristics - the LPT- (longest processing time) and the RLPT-heuristic (restricted LPT). We provide insights … into the solution structure of these two sequencing heuristics and prove that the minimum completion time of the LPT …