A methodology for minimizing the weighted tardiness of jobs in unrelated parallel machining scheduling with sequence-dependent setups is presented in this paper. To comply with industrial situations, the dynamic release of jobs and dynamic availability of machines are assumed. Recognizing the inherent difficulty in solving industrial-size problems efficiently, six different search algorithms ba...

Variable neighborhood search (VNS) systematically exploits the idea to alternate between neighborhoods within a local search [4]. Several VNS variants have been described so far and many of them have been applied with success to a variety of combinatorial optimization problems; see [3, 4] for an overview. Yet, even though scheduling is a central problem in production environments, we are not aw...

One of the cost-intensive issues in managing warehouses is the order picking problem which deals with the retrieval of items from their storage locations in order to meet customer requests. Many solution approaches have been proposed in order to minimize traveling distance in the process of order picking. However, in practice, customer orders have to be completed by certain due dates in order t...

Mixed model assembly lines (MMAL) are a type of production line where a variety of product models similar in product characteristics are assembled. The effective design of these lines requires that schedule for assembling the different products is determined. In this paper we tried to fit the sequencing problem with the main characteristics of make to order (MTO) environment. The problem solved...

In this paper, a scatter search algorithm with improved component modules is proposed to solve the single machine total weighted tardiness problem with sequence-dependent setup times. For diversification generation module, both random strategy based heuristics and construction heuristic are adopted to generate the diversified population. For improvement module, variable neighborhood search base...

In this paper the NP-hard single machine total weighted tardiness scheduling problem in presence of sequence-dependent setup times is faced with a new Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) approach. The proposed ACO algorithm is based on a new global pheromone update mechanism, which makes the pheromone trails asymptotically range between two bounds arbitrarily fixed and the ACO learning mechanism ind...

This paper investigates single-machine scheduling with a deteriorating maintenance activity, where the processing time of job depends on whether it is handled before or after activity. Under common and slack due date assignments, aim to find optimal schedule, position value (flow-allowance) so that linear weighted sum earliness, tardiness minimized, weights are location-dependent (position-depe...