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 ...
An important aspect in software engineering is the ability to distinguish between premature, unnecessary, and necessary ...
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 ...