In this paper, co-evolution is used to examine the long-term evolution of business models in an industry. Two types of co-evolution are used: synchronous, whereby the entire population of business models is replaced with a new population at each generation, and asynchronous, whereby only one...

Dispatching rules are simple scheduling heuristics that are widely applied in industrial practice. Their popularity can be attributed to their ability to flexibly react to shop floor disruptions that are prevalent in many real-world manufacturing environments. However, it is a challenging and...

Many practical optimization problems are dynamically changing, and require a tracking of the global optimum over time. However, tracking usually has to be quick, which excludes re-optimization from scratch every time the problem changes. Instead, it is important to make good use of the history...