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The optimization of complex medical appointment scheduling remains a significant operational challenge in multi-center healthcare environments, where clinical safety protocols and patient logistics must be reconciled. This study proposes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Ana Rodrigues , Rui Rego

This work proposes a novel approach to evaluate and analyze the behavior of multi-population parallel genetic algorithms (PGAs) when running on a cluster of multi-core processors. In particular, we deeply study their numerical and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Tomohiro Harada , Enrique Alba , Gabriel Luque

Growing power dissipation due to high performance requirement of processor suggests multicore processor technology, which has become the technology for present and next decade. Research advocates asymmetric multi-core processor system for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Alan David

This thesis investigates the use of problem-specific knowledge to enhance a genetic algorithm approach to multiple-choice optimisation problems.It shows that such information can significantly enhance performance, but that the choice of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Uwe Aickelin

Since beginning of Grid computing, scheduling of dependent tasks application has attracted attention of researchers due to NP-Complete nature of the problem. In Grid environment, scheduling is deciding about assignment of tasks to available…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Deepak. c. vegda , Harshad. B. Prajapati

A parallel genetic algorithm (GA) implemented on GPU clusters is proposed to solve the Uncapacitated Single Allocation p-Hub Median problem. The GA uses binary and integer encoding and genetic operators adapted to this problem. Our GA is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Abdelhamid Benaini , Achraf Berrajaa , Jaouad Boukachour , Mustapha Oudani

Due to new government legislation, customers' environmental concerns and continuously rising cost of energy, energy efficiency is becoming an essential parameter of industrial manufacturing processes in recent years. Most efforts…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Jia Luo , Shigeru Fujimura , Didier El Baz

Optimization of data placement in complex scientific workflows has become very crucial since the large amounts of data generated by these workflows significantly increases the turnaround time of the end-to-end application. It is almost…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Dengpan Yin , Tevfik Kosar

We consider different online algorithms for a generalized scheduling problem for parallel machines, described in details in the first section. This problem is the generalization of the classical parallel machine scheduling problem, when the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Istvan Szalkai , Gyorgy Dosa

Algorithms developed for scheduling applications on heterogeneous multiprocessor system focus on asingle objective such as execution time, cost or total data transmission time. However, if more than oneobjective (e.g. execution cost and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-11 M. Rathna Devi , A. Anju

We present a multi-purpose genetic algorithm, designed and implemented with GPGPU / CUDA parallel computing technology. The model was derived from a multi-core CPU serial implementation, named GAME, already scientifically successfully…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-30 Stefano Cavuoti , Mauro Garofalo , Massimo Brescia , Antonio Pescapé , Giuseppe Longo , Giorgio Ventre

The main problems of school course timetabling are time, curriculum, and classrooms. In addition there are other problems that vary from one institution to another. This paper is intended to solve the problem of satisfying the teachers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-09-10 Ihab Sbeity , Mohamed Dbouk , Habib Kobeissi

This paper addresses the problem of scheduling jobs on identical machines with conflict constraints, where certain jobs cannot be scheduled simultaneously on different machines. We focus on the case where conflicts can be represented by a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Nour ElHouda Tellache , Lydia Aoudia , Mourad Boudhar

This paper investigates the impact of hybridizing a multi-modal Genetic Algorithm with a Graph Neural Network for timetabling optimization. The Graph Neural Network is designed to encapsulate general domain knowledge to improve schedule…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Laura-Maria Cornei , Mihaela-Elena Breabăn

Testing provides means pertaining to assuring software performance. The total aim of software industry is actually to make a certain start associated with high quality software for the end user. However, associated with software testing has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Ahmed Mateen , Marriam Nazir , Salman Afsar Awan

The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is one of the models used for the multi-row layout problem with facilities of equal area. There are a set of n facilities and a set of n locations. For each pair of locations, a distance is specified…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Hosein Azarbonyad , Reza Babazadeh

We study the problem of scheduling a general computational DAG on multiple processors in a 2-level memory hierarchy. This setting is a natural generalization of several prominent models in the literature, and it simultaneously captures…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Pál András Papp , Toni Böhnlein , A. N. Yzelman

This note presents a simple and effective variation of genetic algorithm (GA) for solving RCPSP, denoted as 2-Phase Genetic Algorithm (2PGA). The 2PGA implements GA parent selection in two phases: Phase-1 includes the best current solutions…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-04 D. Sun , S. Zhou

Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are known for their efficiency in solving combinatorial optimization problems, thanks to their ability to explore diverse solution spaces, handle various representations, exploit parallelism, preserve good…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Majid Sohrabi , Amir M. Fathollahi-Fard , Vasilii A. Gromov

Here a genetic algorithm (GA) is presented that creates a teaching schedule for a university physics department by algorithmically assigning ${\sim}200$ classes to ${\sim}50$ professors for each of three academic terms per year. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Tom Bensky , Karl Saunders