This book describes the potentialities of metaheuristics for solving production scheduling problems and the relationship between these two fields. For the past several years, there has been an increasing interest in using metaheuristic methods to solve scheduling problems. The main reasons for...

1 Einführung in die Problemstellung -- 1.1 Entscheidungsebenen der Produktionsplanung -- 1.2 Randbedingungen der operativen Produktionsplanung -- 1.3 Fallstudie: Chemische Industrie -- 2 Simultane und hierarchische Planung -- 2.1 Simultane Planung -- 2.2 Hierarchische Planung -- 3 Modellierung...