Abstract: Job-dependent tool switching is necessary in many batch processing systems (BPSs). Heterogeneous tool demand and extra time consumption for tool switches bring great challenges for ...
Abstract: This paper proposes an iterative branch-and-bound (IB&B) approach for complex product assembly station scheduling problems (CPASSP) to minimize the total weighted tardiness (TWT). First, an ...
Branch-and-bound is the workhorse of all state-of-the-art mixed integer linear programming (MILP) solvers. These implementations of branch-and-bound typically use variable branching, that is, the ...