We present a framework for solving multistage pure 0–1 programs for a widely used sequencing and scheduling problem with uncertainty in the objective function coefficients, the constraint matrix and the right-hand side. The problem has the following form: given a set of operations to be executed along a time horizon, find a schedule to minimize a function included by the expected operations cos...

Today, robotics is an important cornerstone of modern industrial production. Robots are used for numerous reasons including reliability and continuously high quality of work. The main decision factor is the overall efficiency of the robotic system in the production line. One key issue for this is the optimality of the whole set of robotic movements for industrial applications, which typically c...

The goal of this paper is to propose a tabu search heuristic for the car sequencing problem (CSP) used for the ROADEF 2005 international Challenge. This NP-hard problem was proposed by the automobile manufacturer Renault. The first objective of the car industry is to assign a production day to each customer-ordered car and the second one consists of scheduling the order of cars to be put on the...

Car sequencing is a well known NP-complete problem. This paper introduces encodings of this problem into CNF based on sequential counters. We demonstrate that SAT solvers are powerful in this domain and report new lower bounds for the benchmark set in the CSPLib.

This research addresses the mixed-model assembly line (MMAL) by considering various constraints. In MMALs, several types of products which their similarity is so high are made on an assembly line. As a consequence, it is possible to assemble and make several types of products simultaneously without spending any additional time. The proposed multi-objective model considers the balancing and sequ...

despite existing various integer programming for sequencing problems, there is not enoughinformation about practical values of the models. this paper considers the problem of minimizing maximumlateness with release dates and presents four different mixed integer programming (mip) models to solve thisproblem. these models have been formulated for the classical single machine problem, namely sequ...