The factory scheduling problem, that of allocating machines to competing jobs in manufacturing facilities to optimize or at least improve system performance, is

Generally speaking, scheduling is the procedure of mapping a set of tasks or jobs (studied objects) to a set of target resources efficiently. More specifically,

Both process planning and scheduling are very important functions of manufacturing, which affect together the cost to manufacture a product and the time to deli

This book includes a selection of refereed papers presented at the "Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (OR2016)," which t

Researchers in management, industrial engineering, operations, and computer science have intensely studied scheduling for more than 50 years, resulting in an as