In this paper, we consider hoist scheduling problems in a job shop environment. For each job several operations can be operated on tanks, and their processing times are bounded. The objective is to assign resources to both processing and transport operations and then to schedule those tasks on...

This paper chooses a supply chain which involves multiple supply links as the studied object. In each supply link, we consider an integrated scheduling problem in which a set of identical jobs are first processed on a single machine, and then batch delivered to a customer by a transporter. Each...