The job shop scheduling problem is one of the most studied optimization problems to this day and it becomes more and more important in the light of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) that aims at fully automated production processes. For a long time exact methods like constraint...

Die Arbeit behandelt Anwendungen der kombinatorischen Optimierung in Logistik und Transport. Sie betrachtet drei verallgemeinerte Routingprobleme aus der Perspektive des Operations Research:(i) das verallgemeinerte gerichtete Rural-Postman-Problem (generalized directed rural postman problem,...

The increasing emphasis on mass customization, shortened product lifecycles, synchronized supply chains, when coupled with advances in information system, is driving most firms towards make-to-order (MTO) operations. Increasing global competition, lower profit margins, and higher customer...