, three construction heuristics and an Ant Colony System (ACS) algorithm are developed for solving this integrated problem … scheduling n jobs on m identical parallel machines is solved such that the expected makespan is minimised. The machines are …

intensely challenges real time adaptive production scheduling and control. Indeed, many of the most popular heuristics continue … to use Johnson’s algorithm (1954) as their core. This paper presents a state space (SS) heuristic, integrated with a …

-dependent setup times. First, we adopt a serial branch-and-bound algorithm from the literature and present a modified branching … versions of the branch-and-price algorithm. Third, we conduct extensive computational experiments to show that our …

assignment of the jobs to the machines such that the maximum completion time (makespan) is minimized. We present an exact … algorithm based on branch and price that combines methods from bin packing, scheduling and graph coloring, with appropriate … modifications. The algorithm has a good computational performance even for parallel machine scheduling without conflicting jobs …

model considering task release time is established, and a branch-and-bound algorithm with multiple effective dominance rules … carried out with a randomly generated case base, and the computational experimental results show that the algorithm can give …