Book Details

Metaheuristics for Scheduling in Industrial and Manufacturing Applications

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-3-540-78985-7

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This book deals with the application of various novel metaheuristics in scheduling. Addressing the various issues of scheduling in industrial and manufacturing applications is the novelty of this edited volume. Important features include the detailed overview of the various novel metaheuristic scheduling approaches, excellent coverage of timely, advanced scheduling topics, state-of-the-art theoretical research and application developments and chapters authored by pioneers in the field.


Subject: Engineering, Lot sizing and Manufacturing systems, Meta-Heuristics, Multiprocessor scheduling, Production Scheduling, Scheduling, Sequencing problems, Timetabling, algorithm, algorithms, evolutionary algorithm, genetic algorithms, heuristics, modeling, optimization, search algorithm