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There is a growing interest in integrating machine learning techniques and optimization to solve challenging optimization problems. In this work, we propose a deep reinforcement learning methodology for the job shop scheduling problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Marta Monaci , Valerio Agasucci , Giorgio Grani

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

Job Shop Scheduling (JSS) is one of the most studied combinatorial optimization problems. It involves scheduling a set of jobs with predefined processing constraints on a set of machines to achieve a desired objective, such as minimizing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Karima Rihane , Adel Dabah , Abdelhakim AitZai

Job scheduling is a well-known Combinatorial Optimization problem with endless applications. Well planned schedules bring many benefits in the context of automated systems: among others, they limit production costs and waste. Nevertheless,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Giovanni Bonetta , Davide Zago , Rossella Cancelliere , Andrea Grosso

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

The job shop scheduling problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem relevant to manufacturing and timetabling. Traditional approaches use priority dispatching rules based on simple heuristics. Recent work has attempted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Pablo Ariño Fernández

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 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

Constraint Programming (CP) is a declarative programming paradigm that allows for modeling and solving combinatorial optimization problems, such as the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP). While CP solvers manage to find optimal or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Pierre Tassel , Martin Gebser , Konstantin Schekotihin

The Job shop scheduling problem (JSSP) plays a pivotal role in industrial applications, such as signal processing (SP) and steel manufacturing, involving sequencing machines and jobs to maximize scheduling efficiency. Before, JSSP was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-04 Yize Sun , Jiarui Liu , Yunpu Ma , Volker Tresp

Priority dispatching rule (PDR) is widely used for solving real-world Job-shop scheduling problem (JSSP). However, the design of effective PDRs is a tedious task, requiring a myriad of specialized knowledge and often delivering limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Cong Zhang , Wen Song , Zhiguang Cao , Jie Zhang , Puay Siew Tan , Chi Xu

Learned construction heuristics for scheduling problems have become increasingly competitive with established solvers and heuristics in recent years. In particular, significant improvements have been observed in solution approaches using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Constantin Waubert de Puiseau , Christian Dörpelkus , Jannik Peters , Hasan Tercan , Tobias Meisen

Recent advances in deep learning have shown significant potential for solving combinatorial optimization problems in real-time. Unlike traditional methods, deep learning can generate high-quality solutions efficiently, which is crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Imanol Echeverria , Maialen Murua , Roberto Santana

The permutation flow shop scheduling (PFSS), aiming at finding the optimal permutation of jobs, is widely used in manufacturing systems. When solving large-scale PFSS problems, traditional optimization algorithms such as heuristics could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Longkang Li , Siyuan Liang , Zihao Zhu , Chris Ding , Hongyuan Zha , Baoyuan Wu

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

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

Recently, a variety of constraint programming and Boolean satisfiability approaches to scheduling problems have been introduced. They have in common the use of relatively simple propagation mechanisms and an adaptive way to focus on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-28 Diarmuid Grimes , Emmanuel Hebrard

The Integrated Process Planning and Scheduling (IPPS) problem combines process route planning and shop scheduling to achieve high efficiency in manufacturing and maximize resource utilization, which is crucial for modern manufacturing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Hongpei Li , Han Zhang , Ziyan He , Yunkai Jia , Bo Jiang , Xiang Huang , Dongdong Ge

In practice, it is quite common to face combinatorial optimization problems which contain uncertainty along with non-determinism and dynamicity. These three properties call for appropriate algorithms; reinforcement learning (RL) is dealing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Nathan Grinsztajn , Olivier Beaumont , Emmanuel Jeannot , Philippe Preux

Modern industry-scale data centers need to manage a large number of virtual machines (VMs). Due to the continual creation and release of VMs, many small resource fragments are scattered across physical machines (PMs). To handle these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Xianzhong Ding , Yunkai Zhang , Binbin Chen , Donghao Ying , Tieying Zhang , Jianjun Chen , Lei Zhang , Alberto Cerpa , Wan Du