A simulated annealing algorithm for the unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem

Robotics, Automation, Control and Manufacturing: Trends, Principles and Applications - Proceedings of the 5th Biannual World Automation Congress, WAC 2002, ISORA 2002, ISIAC 2002 and ISOMA 2002

Volumn 14, Issue , 2002, Pages 115-120

  Anagnostopoulos, Georgios C ^a   Rabadi, Ghaith ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Integer program; Scheduling; Setup times; Simulated annealing; Unrelated parallel machines

Indexed keywords

COMPLETION TIME; INTEGER PROGRAM; MAKESPAN; NP-HARD; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMUM SOLUTION; SCHEDULING JOBS; SEQUENCE-DEPENDENT SETUP TIME; SET-UP TIME; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS; TEST PROBLEM; UNRELATED PARALLEL MACHINES;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MANUFACTURE; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

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