The scheduling of manufacturing systems using Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques in order to find optimal/near-optimal solutions.

This thesis aims to review and analyze the scheduling problem in general and Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) in particular and the solution techniques applied to these problems. The JSSP is the most general and popular hard combinational optimization problem in manufacturing systems. For the past...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maqsood, Shahid
Other Authors: Khan, M. Khurshid
Language:en
Published: University of Bradford 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10454/6322