The concept of flexible manufacturing is highly appealing in gaining a competitive edge in the market by quickly adapting to the changing customer needs. Scheduling jobs on flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) is a challenging task of managing the available flexibility on the shop floor to react to the dynamics of the environment in real-time. In this paper, an agent-oriented scheduling framew...

Keywords: Scheduling Flexible job shop Differential evolution Local search Neighborhood structure Makespan a b s t r a c t This paper proposes hybrid differential evolution (HDE) algorithms for solving the flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) with the criterion to minimize the makespan. Firstly, a novel conversion mechanism is developed to make the differential evolution (DE) algorithm t...

We propose a flexible model and several integer linear programming and constraint programming formulations for integrated employee timetabling and production scheduling problems. A hybrid constraint and linear programming exact method is designed to solve a basic integrated employee timetabling and job-shop scheduling problem for lexicographic minimization of makespan and labor costs. Prelimina...

We present a heuristic algorithm for solving the scheduling problem in a glass factory. It is basically a flexible job shop problem, with some added complexities due to the special characteristics of the machines involved in the production process. The main objective function is a non-convex function of completion times and duedates, and some secondary objectives are also considered.