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AAAI
1994
14 years 1 months ago
Case-Based Acquisition of User Preferences for Solution Improvement in Ill-Structured Domains
1 We have developed an approach to acquire complicated user optimization criteria and use them to guide iterative solution improvement. The eectiveness of the approach was tested ...
Katia P. Sycara, Kazuo Miyashita
CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An ant system with steps counter for the job shop scheduling problem
In this paper, we present an ant system algorithm variant designed to solve the job shop scheduling problem. The proposed approach is based on a recent biological study which showe...
Emanuel Tellez-Emiquez, Efrén Mezura-Montes...
KR
1992
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Intelligent Backtracking Techniques for Job Shop Scheduling
This paper studies a version of the job shop scheduling problem in which some operations have to be scheduled within non-relaxable time windows i.e. earliest latest possible start...
Yalin Xiong, Norman M. Sadeh, Katia P. Sycara
EPS
1997
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Investigating Parallel Genetic Algorithms on Job Shop Scheduling Problems
This paper describes a GA for job shop scheduling problems. Using the Giffler and Thompson algorithm, we created two new operators, THX crossover and mutation, which better trans...
Shyh-Chang Lin, Erik D. Goodman, William F. Punch ...
FSTTCS
1999
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Randomized Algorithm for Flow Shop Scheduling
Abstract. Shop scheduling problems are known to be notoriously intractable, both in theory and practice. In this paper we give a randomized approximation algorithm for flow shop s...
Naveen Garg, Sachin Jain, Chaitanya Swamy