Scheduling has become an attractive area for artificial intelligence researchers. On other hand, in today's real-world manufacturing systems, the importance of an efficient maintenance schedule program cannot be ignored because it plays an important role in the success of manufacturing facilities. A maintenance program may be considered as the heath care of manufacturing machines and equipments...

In this paper we address a multi-objective scheduling problem for unrelated parallel machines. In unrelated parallel systems, the processing cost/time of a given job on different machines may vary. The objective of scheduling is to simultaneously determine the job-machine assignment and job sequencing on each machine. In such a way the total cost of the schedule is minimized. The cost function ...

Job scheduling is concerned with the optimal allocation of scare resources with objective of optimising one or several criteria. Job scheduling has been a fruitful area of research for many decades in which scheduling resolve both allocation of machines and order of processing. If the jobs are scheduled properly, not only the time is saved but also efficiency of system is increased. The paralle...

We consider online preemptive scheduling of jobs arriving one by one, to be assigned two identical machines, with the goal makespan minimization. study effect selecting best solution out independent solutions constructed in parallel an fashion. Two cases are analyzed, where case is purely online, and other presented sorted non-increasing sizes. show that using rather than improves performance s...

we study the nonpreemptive parallel machines scheduling problem where some of the machines are planned to be shutdown. We apply LPT algorithm to the problem and analyze its performance. Our analysis shows that the makespan of the LPT schedule is bounded by twice the optimum makespan if no more than half of the machines are allowed to be shutdown simultaneously. We also show that this bound ls t...