Metaheuristics for Scheduling in Industrial and Manufacturing Applications

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Xhafa, Fatos (Editor), Abraham, Ajith (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 128
• Subjects: Computer science.; Artificial intelligence.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

During the past decades scheduling has been among the most studied optimization problems and it is still an active area of research! Scheduling appears in many areas of science, engineering and industry and takes different forms depending on the restrictions and optimization criteria of the operatin...