A new access method, called M-tree, is proposed to organize and search large data sets from a generic "metric space", i.e. where object proximity is only defined by a di...
Balancing assembly lines is a crucial task for manufacturing companies in order to improve productivity and minimize production costs. Despite some progress in exact methods to so...
Sophie D. Lapierre, Angel B. Ruiz, Patrick Soriano
This paper considers a project scheduling problem with the objective of minimizing resource availability costs, taking into account a deadline for the project and precedence relat...
The effects of combining search and modelling techniques can be complex and unpredictable, so guidelines are very important for the design and development of effective and robust s...
This paper proposes a local search algorithm that makes use of a complex neighborhood relation based on a hybridization with a constructive heuristics for the classical resource-co...