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Book Evolutionary Scheduling

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  • Author : Keshav Dahal
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2007-02-15
  • ISBN : 3540485821
  • Pages : 631 pages

Download or read book Evolutionary Scheduling written by Keshav Dahal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary scheduling is a vital research domain at the interface of artificial intelligence and operational research. This edited book gives an overview of many of the current developments in the large and growing field of evolutionary scheduling. It demonstrates the applicability of evolutionary computational techniques to solve scheduling problems, not only to small-scale test problems, but also fully-fledged real-world problems.

Book A Tabu Search Heuristic for a Sequence dependent and Time dependent Scheduling Problem on a Single Machine

Download or read book A Tabu Search Heuristic for a Sequence dependent and Time dependent Scheduling Problem on a Single Machine written by Gabriella Stecco and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Metaheuristics

Download or read book Handbook of Metaheuristics written by Michel Gendreau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this handbook is designed to provide a broad coverage of the concepts, implementations, and applications in metaheuristics. The book’s chapters serve as stand-alone presentations giving both the necessary underpinnings as well as practical guides for implementation. The nature of metaheuristics invites an analyst to modify basic methods in response to problem characteristics, past experiences, and personal preferences, and the chapters in this handbook are designed to facilitate this process as well. This new edition has been fully revised and features new chapters on swarm intelligence and automated design of metaheuristics from flexible algorithm frameworks. The authors who have contributed to this volume represent leading figures from the metaheuristic community and are responsible for pioneering contributions to the fields they write about. Their collective work has significantly enriched the field of optimization in general and combinatorial optimization in particular.Metaheuristics are solution methods that orchestrate an interaction between local improvement procedures and higher level strategies to create a process capable of escaping from local optima and performing a robust search of a solution space. In addition, many new and exciting developments and extensions have been observed in the last few years. Hybrids of metaheuristics with other optimization techniques, like branch-and-bound, mathematical programming or constraint programming are also increasingly popular. On the front of applications, metaheuristics are now used to find high-quality solutions to an ever-growing number of complex, ill-defined real-world problems, in particular combinatorial ones. This handbook should continue to be a great reference for researchers, graduate students, as well as practitioners interested in metaheuristics.

Book Proceedings of the First International Conference on Genetic Algorithms and their Applications

Download or read book Proceedings of the First International Conference on Genetic Algorithms and their Applications written by John J. Grefenstette and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer solutions to many difficult problems in science and engineering require the use of automatic search methods that consider a large number of possible solutions to the given problems. This book describes recent advances in the theory and practice of one such search method, called Genetic Algorithms. Genetic algorithms are evolutionary search techniques based on principles derived from natural population genetics, and are currently being applied to a variety of difficult problems in science, engineering, and artificial intelligence.

Book Scheduling Theory  Single Stage Systems

Download or read book Scheduling Theory Single Stage Systems written by V. Tanaev and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scheduling theory is an important branch of operations research. Problems studied within the framework of that theory have numerous applications in various fields of human activity. As an independent discipline scheduling theory appeared in the middle of the fifties, and has attracted the attention of researchers in many countries. In the Soviet Union, research in this direction has been mainly related to production scheduling, especially to the development of automated systems for production control. In 1975 Nauka ("Science") Publishers, Moscow, issued two books providing systematic descriptions of scheduling theory. The first one was the Russian translation of the classical book Theory of Scheduling by American mathematicians R. W. Conway, W. L. Maxwell and L. W. Miller. The other one was the book Introduction to Scheduling Theory by Soviet mathematicians V. S. Tanaev and V. V. Shkurba. These books well complement each other. Both. books well represent major results known by that time, contain an exhaustive bibliography on the subject. Thus, the books, as well as the Russian translation of Computer and Job-Shop Scheduling Theory edited by E. G. Coffman, Jr., (Nauka, 1984) have contributed to the development of scheduling theory in the Soviet Union. Many different models, the large number of new results make it difficult for the researchers who work in related fields to follow the fast development of scheduling theory and to master new methods and approaches quickly.

Book A Tabu Search genetic Algorithm Hybrid Heuristic for Solving a Master Production Scheduling Problem with Sequence Dependent Changeover Times

Download or read book A Tabu Search genetic Algorithm Hybrid Heuristic for Solving a Master Production Scheduling Problem with Sequence Dependent Changeover Times written by Gregory C. Hoscheit and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foundations of Bilevel Programming

Download or read book Foundations of Bilevel Programming written by Stephan Dempe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilevel programming problems are hierarchical optimization problems where the constraints of one problem (the so-called upper level problem) are defined in part by a second parametric optimization problem (the lower level problem). If the lower level problem has a unique optimal solution for all parameter values, this problem is equivalent to a one-level optimization problem having an implicitly defined objective function. Special emphasize in the book is on problems having non-unique lower level optimal solutions, the optimistic (or weak) and the pessimistic (or strong) approaches are discussed. The book starts with the required results in parametric nonlinear optimization. This is followed by the main theoretical results including necessary and sufficient optimality conditions and solution algorithms for bilevel problems. Stationarity conditions can be applied to the lower level problem to transform the optimistic bilevel programming problem into a one-level problem. Properties of the resulting problem are highlighted and its relation to the bilevel problem is investigated. Stability properties, numerical complexity, and problems having additional integrality conditions on the variables are also discussed. Audience: Applied mathematicians and economists working in optimization, operations research, and economic modelling. Students interested in optimization will also find this book useful.

Book Constraint Based Scheduling

Download or read book Constraint Based Scheduling written by Philippe Baptiste and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraint Programming is a problem-solving paradigm that establishes a clear distinction between two pivotal aspects of a problem: (1) a precise definition of the constraints that define the problem to be solved and (2) the algorithms and heuristics enabling the selection of decisions to solve the problem. It is because of these capabilities that Constraint Programming is increasingly being employed as a problem-solving tool to solve scheduling problems. Hence the development of Constraint-Based Scheduling as a field of study. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the most widely used Constraint-Based Scheduling techniques. Following the principles of Constraint Programming, the book consists of three distinct parts: The first chapter introduces the basic principles of Constraint Programming and provides a model of the constraints that are the most often encountered in scheduling problems. Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5 are focused on the propagation of resource constraints, which usually are responsible for the "hardness" of the scheduling problem. Chapters 6, 7, and 8 are dedicated to the resolution of several scheduling problems. These examples illustrate the use and the practical efficiency of the constraint propagation methods of the previous chapters. They also show that besides constraint propagation, the exploration of the search space must be carefully designed, taking into account specific properties of the considered problem (e.g., dominance relations, symmetries, possible use of decomposition rules). Chapter 9 mentions various extensions of the model and presents promising research directions.

Book Journal of Applied Operational Research

Download or read book Journal of Applied Operational Research written by Kaveh Sheibani and published by ORLAB Analytics. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are pleased to welcome readers to this issue of the Journal of Applied Operational Research (JAOR), Volume 3, Number 2. The journal reports on developments in all aspects of operational research, including the latest advances and applications. It is a primarily goal of the journal to focus on and publish practical case studies which illustrate real-life applications.

Book Designing and Implementing a Heuristic for Solving Instances of an Open Shop Scheduling Problem Including Sequence dependent Setup Times and Transportation Delays

Download or read book Designing and Implementing a Heuristic for Solving Instances of an Open Shop Scheduling Problem Including Sequence dependent Setup Times and Transportation Delays written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Information Control Problems in Manufacturing 2006

Download or read book Information Control Problems in Manufacturing 2006 written by Alexandre Dolgui and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-04-18 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information Control Problems in Manufacturing 2006 contains the Proceedings of the 12th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM'2006). This symposium took place in Saint Etienne, France, on May 17-19 2006. INCOM is a tri-annual event of symposia series organized by IFAC and it is promoted by the IFAC Technical Committee on Manufacturing Plant Control. The purpose of the symposium INCOM'2006 was to offer a forum to present the state-of-the-art in international research and development work, with special emphasis on the applications of optimisation methods, automation and IT technologies in the control of manufacturing plants and the entire supply chain within the enterprise. The symposium stressed the scientific challenges and issues, covering the whole product and processes life cycle, from the design through the manufacturing and maintenance, to the distribution and service. INCOM'2006 Technical Program also included a special event on Innovative Engineering Techniques in Healthcare Delivery. The application of engineering and IT methods in medicine is a rapidly growing field with many opportunities for innovation. The Proceedings are composed of 3 volumes: Volume 1 - Information Systems, Control & Interoperability Volume 2 - Industrial Engineering Volume 3 - Operational Research * 3-volume set, containing 362 carefully reviewed and selected papers * presenting the state-of-the-art in international research and development in Information Control problems in Manufacturing

Book Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems

Download or read book Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems written by Andrea Lodi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2010, held in Bologna, Italy, in June 2010. The 18 revised full papers and 17 revised short papers presented together with the extended abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers are focused on both theoretical and practical, application-oriented issues and present current research with a special focus on the integration and hybridization of the approaches of constraint programming, artificial intelligence, and operations research technologies for solving large scale and complex real life combinatorial optimization problems.

Book Some New Results on Tabu Search Algorithm Applied to the Job Shop Scheduling Problem

Download or read book Some New Results on Tabu Search Algorithm Applied to the Job Shop Scheduling Problem written by Chaoyong Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some New Results on Tabu Search Algorithm Applied to the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem.

Book Handbook of Formal Optimization

Download or read book Handbook of Formal Optimization written by Anand J. Kulkarni and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 1406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Tabu Search Heuristic for the Multiprocessor Scheduling Problem with Sequence Dependent Setup Times

Download or read book A Tabu Search Heuristic for the Multiprocessor Scheduling Problem with Sequence Dependent Setup Times written by Paulo M. Franc̜a and published by Montréal : Centre for Research on Transportation = Centre de recherche sur les transports. This book was released on 1995 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: