Job Shop and Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problems: Heuristic Optimization

Ajay Kumar Agarwal; Rakesh Kumar

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The development of modern wide-area engineering problems, as well as recent trends towards the creation of sustainable engineering systems for daily objectives have given birth to complex studies addressing technical, but also economical and environmental, aspects related to simple or multi-objective optimization problems. Recently, heuristic and (meta) heuristic approachesthat apply combinations of different heuristics with or without traditional search and optimization techniques were proposed to solve such problems. This paper provides enhancement of basic knowledge about widely used terms heuristic, (meta) heuristic and combinatorial optimization techniques and their relevance in feasible solution of an optimization problem in engineering.

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