Metaheuristics for Scheduling in Industrial and Manufacturing Applications

During the past decades scheduling has been among the most studied op- mization problems and it is still an active area of research!Schedulingappears in many areas of science, engineering and industry and takes different forms depending on the restrictions and optimization criteria of the operating en- ronments [8]. For instance, in optimization and computer science, scheduling has been defined as “the allocation of tasks to resources over time in order to achieve optimality in one or more ...