Automated Scheduling and Planning From Theory to Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Uyar, A. Sima. (Editor), Ozcan, Ender. (Editor), Urquhart, Neil. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 505
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39304-4

� Solving scheduling problems has long presented a challenge for computer scientists and operations researchers. The field continues to expand as researchers and practitioners examine ever more challenging problems and develop automated methods capable of solving them. This book provides 11 case stu...

Table of Contents:

• Airport Airside Optimisation Problems(Atkin)
• Instruction Scheduling in Microprocessors(Kucuk Guney and Ponomarev)
• Sports Scheduling: Minimizing Travel for English Football Supporters (Kendall and Westphal)
• Educational Timetabling (Kingston)
• Automated Shift Design and Break Scheduling (Gaspero, Gartner, Musliu, Schaerf,Schafhauser, and Slany)
• Nurse Rostering: a Complex Example of Personnel Scheduling with Perspectives (Smet, Causmaecker, Bilgin and Vanden Berghe)
• Radiotherapy Scheduling (Petrovic, Castro, Petrovic and Kapamara)
• Recent Advances in Evolutionary Algorithms for Job Shop Scheduling (Akay and Yao)
• Multi-objective Grid Scheduling (Arsuaga-Rios and Vega-Rodriguez)
• A Dynamic Multi-objective Job Shop Scheduling: A Genetic Programming Approach (Nguyen, Zhang, Johnston, and Tan)
• Dynamic Vehicle Routing: A Memetic Ant Colony Optimization approach (Michalis Mavrovouniotis and Shengxiang Yang).