We address resource leveling problems in a machine environment. Given a set of m machines, one or more renewable resources, and a set of n tasks, each assigned to exactly one of the machines. Each task has a processing time, an earliest start time, a deadline, and resource requirements. There...

In this paper we present a case study from the lighting industry concerned with the scheduling of a set of job families each representing the production of a particular end-item in a given quantity. It is a job shop type problem, where each job family has a number of routing alternatives, and...