We address the operational management of station-based bike sharing systems (BSSs). In BSSs, users can spontaneously rent and return bikes at any stations in the system. Demand is driven by commuter, shopping, and leisure activities. This demand constitutes a regular pattern of bike usage over...

This paper adresses job tardiness for non deterministic job shop scheduling. A comparative study shows that a GA consistently outperforms different priority rules regardless of the workload and the objective pursued.