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The Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) is the optimal allocation of a set of jobs to machines. Two primary challenges persist in FJSP: the unpredictable arrival of future jobs and the combinatorial complexity of the problem,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yu Tang , Muhammad Zakwan , Efe Balta , John Lygeros , Alisa Rupenyan

The Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) is commonly formulated as a disjunctive graph in which nodes represent operations and edges encode technological precedence constraints as well as machine-sharing conflicts. Most existing reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Bulent Soykan

The rise of smart manufacturing under Industry 4.0 introduces mass customization and dynamic production, demanding more advanced and flexible scheduling techniques. The flexible job-shop scheduling problem (FJSP) has attracted significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jiaqi Wang , Zhiguang Cao , Peng Zhao , Rui Cao , Yubin Xiao , Yuan Jiang , You Zhou

Recent studies in using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to solve Job-shop scheduling problems (JSSP) focus on construction heuristics. However, their performance is still far from optimality, mainly because the underlying graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Cong Zhang , Zhiguang Cao , Wen Song , Yaoxin Wu , Jie Zhang

In scheduling problems common in the industry and various real-world scenarios, responding in real-time to disruptive events is essential. Recent methods propose the use of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to learn policies capable of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Imanol Echeverria , Maialen Murua , Roberto Santana

The Flexible Job-shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) is a classical combinatorial optimization problem that has a wide-range of applications in the real world. In order to generate fast and accurate scheduling solutions for FJSP, various deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Xinquan Wu , Xuefeng Yan , Mingqiang Wei , Donghai Guan

The following interdisciplinary article presents a memetic algorithm with applying deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for solving practically oriented dual resource constrained flexible job shop scheduling problems (DRC-FJSSP). From research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Felix Grumbach , Nour Eldin Alaa Badr , Pascal Reusch , Sebastian Trojahn

The Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) originates from real production lines, while some practical constraints are often ignored or idealized in current FJSP studies, among which the limited buffer problem has a particular impact…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Shishun Zhang , Juzhan Xu , Yidan Fan , Chenyang Zhu , Ruizhen Hu , Yongjun Wang , Kai Xu

The dynamic job-shop scheduling problem (DJSP) is a class of scheduling tasks that specifically consider the inherent uncertainties such as changing order requirements and possible machine breakdown in realistic smart manufacturing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yunhui Zeng , Zijun Liao , Yuanzhi Dai , Rong Wang , Xiu Li , Bo Yuan

Job-Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) is a combinatorial optimization problem where tasks need to be scheduled on machines in order to minimize criteria such as makespan or delay. To address more realistic scenarios, we associate a probability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Guillaume Infantes , Stéphanie Roussel , Pierre Pereira , Antoine Jacquet , Emmanuel Benazera

Recent advancements in the flexible job-shop scheduling problem (FJSSP) are primarily based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) due to its ability to generate high-quality, real-time solutions. However, DRL approaches often fail to fully…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Imanol Echeverria , Maialen Murua , Roberto Santana

This paper proposes a novel Variational Graph-to-Scheduler (VG2S) framework for solving the Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP), a critical task in manufacturing that directly impacts operational efficiency and resource utilization.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Seung Heon Oh , Jiwon Baek , Ki Young Cho , Hee Chang Yoon , Jong Hun Woo

Flexible manufacturing has given rise to complex scheduling problems such as the flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP). In FJSP, operations can be processed on multiple machines, leading to intricate relationships between operations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Runqing Wang , Gang Wang , Jian Sun , Fang Deng , Jie Chen

Neural approaches to the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP), particularly those based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL), have gained growing attention in recent years. However, existing methods rely on complex feature-engineered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiangjie Xiao , Cong Zhang , Wen Song , Zhiguang Cao

Job-shop scheduling problem (JSP) is a mathematical optimization problem widely used in industries like manufacturing, and flexible JSP (FJSP) is also a common variant. Since they are NP-hard, it is intractable to find the optimal solution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Kuo-Hao Ho , Ruei-Yu Jheng , Ji-Han Wu , Fan Chiang , Yen-Chi Chen , Yuan-Yu Wu , I-Chen Wu

This paper explores the potential application of Deep Reinforcement Learning in the furniture industry. To offer a broad product portfolio, most furniture manufacturers are organized as a job shop, which ultimately results in the Job Shop…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Malte Schneevogt , Karsten Binninger , Noah Klarmann

Solving job shop scheduling problems (JSSPs) with a fixed strategy, such as a priority dispatching rule, may yield satisfactory results for several problem instances but, nevertheless, insufficient results for others. From this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Constantin Waubert de Puiseau , Hasan Tercan , Tobias Meisen

The Flexible Job-shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) is an important combinatorial optimization problem that arises in manufacturing and service settings. FJSP is composed of two subproblems, an assignment problem that assigns tasks to machines,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Wenbo Chen , Reem Khir , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Efficiently solving the Job Shop Scheduling Problem in real-world industrial applications requires policies that are both computationally lean and topologically robust. While Reinforcement Learning has shown potential in automating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jonathan Hoss , Moritz Link , Noah Klarmann

Job shop scheduling problems (JSSPs) represent a critical and challenging class of combinatorial optimization problems. Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase in the application of graph neural networks (GNNs) to solve JSSPs, albeit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Igor G. Smit , Jianan Zhou , Robbert Reijnen , Yaoxin Wu , Jian Chen , Cong Zhang , Zaharah Bukhsh , Yingqian Zhang , Wim Nuijten
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