In this paper we study a complex real world workforce scheduling problem. We apply constructive search and variable neighbourhood search (VNS) metaheuristics and enhance these meth...
Keshav P. Dahal, Stephen Remde, Peter I. Cowling, ...
During our earlier research, it was recognised that in order to be successful with an indirect genetic algorithm approach using a decoder, the decoder has to strike a balance betw...
The problem of scheduling groups of jobs on a single machine under the group technology assumption is studied. Jobs of the same group are processed contiguously and a sequence ind...
T. C. Edwin Cheng, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov, C. T. Ng, ...
Providing web service replicas improves the overall system performance and redundancy for hardware failures. In Business-to-Business, this may be particularly interesting for orga...
— A fundamental problem in quality-of-service (QoS) routing is to find a path connecting a source node to a destination node that satisfies K ≥ 2 additive QoS constraints. Th...