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Increased flexibility in job shops leads to more complexity in decision-making for shop floor engineers. Partial Flexible Job Shop Scheduling (PFJSS) is a subset of Job shop problems and has substantial application in the real world.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-08 M. Thenarasu , K. Rameshkumar , M. Di Mascolo , S. P. Anbuudayasankar

We consider several combinatorial optimization problems which combine the classic shop scheduling problems, namely open shop scheduling or job shop scheduling, and the shortest path problem. The objective of the obtained problem is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-03 Kameng Nip , Zhenbo Wang , Wenxun Xing

Scheduling with testing is a recent online problem within the framework of explorable uncertainty motivated by environments where some preliminary action can influence the duration of a task. Jobs have an unknown processing time that can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Susanne Albers , Alexander Eckl

Because of increasing amounts of intermittent and distributed generators in power systems, many demand response programs have been developed to schedule flexible energy consumption. However, proper benchmarks for comparing these methods are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-19 Koos van der Linden , Natalia Romero , Mathijs M. de Weerdt

Technologies and lifestyles have been increasingly geared toward consumerism in recent years. Accordingly, it is both the price and the delivery time that matter most to the ultimate customers of commercial enterprises. Consequently, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-02 Sina Aghakhani , Mohammad Sadra Rajabi

Efficient job-shop scheduling with transportation resources is critical for high-performance manufacturing. With the rise of "decentralized factories", multi-agent reinforcement learning has emerged as a promising approach for the combined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Moritz Link , Jonathan Hoss , Noah Klarmann

The evolution in the design of modern parallel platforms leads to revisit the scheduling jobs on distributed heterogeneous resources. The goal of this survey is to present the main existing algorithms, to classify them based on their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Olivier Beaumont , Louis-claude Canon , Lionel Eyraud-Dubois , Giorgio Lucarelli , Loris Marchal , Clément Mommessin , Bertrand Simon , Denis Trystram

Flowshop machine scheduling has been of main interest in several applications where the timing of its processes plays a fundamental role in the utilization of system resources. Addressing the optimal sequencing of the jobs when equivalent…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Samah A. M. Ghanem

Progress in neural combinatorial optimization for Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (DFJSP) is currently hindered by a methodological tension: static benchmarks encourage benchmark overfitting, while uncalibrated generators…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Shijie Cao , Yuan Yuan , Jing Liu

We study a scheduling problem in which jobs may be split into parts, where the parts of a split job may be processed simultaneously on more than one machine. Each part of a job requires a setup time, however, on the machine where the job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Frans Schalekamp , Rene Sitters , Suzanne van der Ster , Leen Stougie , Victor Verdugo , Anke van Zuylen

The flexible job shop scheduling problem with sequencing flexibility and position-based learning effect is considered in the present work. In [K. A. G. Araujo, E. G. Birgin, and D. P. Ronconi, Technical Report MCDO02022024, 2024], models,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Kennedy A. G. Araújo , Ernesto G. Birgin , Débora P. Ronconi

Most classical scheduling formulations assume a fixed and known duration for each activity. In this paper, we weaken this assumption, requiring instead that each duration can be represented by an independent random variable with a known…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-10-13 J. C. Beck , N. Wilson

The Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) is a complex combinatorial optimization problem. While online Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown promise by quickly finding acceptable solutions for JSSP, it faces key limitations: it requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Jesse van Remmerden , Zaharah Bukhsh , Yingqian Zhang

The NP-hard Dynamic Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling (DFJSP) problem involves real-time events and complex routing. While traditional rules are efficient but rigid, deep learning is opaque and requires feature engineering. Large Language Models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shijie Cao , Yuan Yuan

Organizations around the world schedule jobs (programs) regularly to perform various tasks dictated by their end users. With the major movement towards using a cloud computing infrastructure, our organization follows a hybrid approach with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sunandita Patra , Mehtab Pathan , Mahmoud Mahfouz , Parisa Zehtabi , Wided Ouaja , Daniele Magazzeni , Manuela Veloso

This paper studies a combinatorial optimization problem which is obtained by combining the flow shop scheduling problem and the shortest path problem. The objective of the obtained problem is to select a subset of jobs that constitutes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-03 Kameng Nip , Zhenbo Wang , Fabrice Talla Nobibon , Roel Leus

We consider a capacitated job shop problem with order acceptance. This research is motivated by the management of a research and development project pipeline for a company in the agricultural industry whose success depends on regularly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Florian Linß , Mike Hewitt , Janis S. Neufeld , Udo Buscher

This paper addresses the incompatible case of parallel batch scheduling, where compatible jobs belong to the same family, and jobs from different families cannot be processed together in the same batch. The state-of-the-art constraint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Jorge A. Huertas , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Motivated by the current research in data centers and cloud computing, we study the problem of scheduling a set of two-stage jobs on multiple two-stage flowshops. A new formulation for configurations of such scheduling is proposed, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Guangwei Wu , Jianer Chen , Jianxin Wang

We present a novel framework for solving Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling Problems under uncertainty, addressing the challenges introduced by stochastic job arrivals and unexpected machine breakdowns. Our approach follows a model-based paradigm,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Sofiene Lassoued , Stefan Lier , Andreas Schwung