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AIR
1999
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13 years 6 months ago
A Survey of Automated Timetabling
The timetabling problem consists in scheduling a sequence of lectures between teachers and students in a prefixed period of time (typically a week), satisfying a set of constraints...
Andrea Schaerf
AAAI
1998
13 years 8 months ago
"Squeaky Wheel" Optimization
We describe a general approach to optimization which we term Squeaky Wheel" Optimization SWO. In SWO, a greedy algorithm is used to construct a solution which is then analyze...
David Joslin, David P. Clements
CP
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Optimal Anytime Constrained Simulated Annealing for Constrained Global Optimization
Abstract. In this paper we propose an optimal anytime version of constrained simulated annealing (CSA) for solving constrained nonlinear programming problems (NLPs). One of the goa...
Benjamin W. Wah, Yixin Chen
TASE
2010
IEEE
13 years 1 months ago
Optimization of Group Elevator Scheduling With Advance Information
Group elevator scheduling has received considerable attention due to its importance to transportation efficiency for mid-rise and high-rise buildings. One important trend to improv...
Jin Sun, Qianchuan Zhao, Peter B. Luh
COR
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Scheduling with tool changes to minimize total completion time under controllable machining conditions
Scheduling under controllable machining conditions has been studied for some time. Scheduling with tool changes, particularly due to tool wear, has just begun to receive attention...
M. Selim Akturk, Jay B. Ghosh, Rabia K. Kayan