"This cutting-edge book covers emerging, evolutionary and nature inspired optimization techniques in the field of advanced manufacturing. The complexity of real life advanced manufacturing problems often cannot be solved by traditional engineering or computational methods. Hence, in recent years...

Decentral production control plays a crucial role within the paradigm of Industry 4.0. Due to the fast and flexible decisions on allocation and sequencing required by this type of control, there is no baseline production schedule in advance. This creates a dilemma for efficient staff deployment...