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  • Open Access
369 Citations
168,205 Views
53 Pages

29 July 2020

In light of future work challenges, actual human resource management (HRM) needs to be redesigned, including long-term development, regeneration, and renewal of human resources, passing from consuming to developing human resources by incorporating th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,840 Views
15 Pages

17 July 2024

Although cognitive control and flexibility have been examined in the past, this study examines their relationship in a stressful working environment, focusing on intrinsic job satisfaction using cognitive behavioral theory as a framework. This study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,153 Views
15 Pages

Given the importance of individual level creativity, this paper investigates the influence of employee polychronicity on employee creativity among nurses in the healthcare sector. The current research also tests how job engagement acts as a mediator...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,692 Views
25 Pages

A Hybrid Search Using Genetic Algorithms and Random-Restart Hill-Climbing for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Instances with High Flexibility

  • Nayeli Jazmin Escamilla-Serna,
  • Juan Carlos Seck-Tuoh-Mora,
  • Joselito Medina-Marin,
  • Irving Barragan-Vite and
  • José Ramón Corona-Armenta

11 August 2022

This work presents a novel hybrid algorithm called GA-RRHC based on genetic algorithms (GAs) and a random-restart hill-climbing (RRHC) algorithm for the optimization of the flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSSP) with high flexibility (where eve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
770 Views
20 Pages

29 September 2025

With the rapid development of Industry 5.0, smart manufacturing has become a key focus in production systems. Hence, achieving efficient planning and scheduling on the shop floor is important, especially in job shop environments, which are widely enc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
871 Views
22 Pages

26 August 2025

Human–machine collaborative scheduling has been widely applied in the modern manufacturing industry. Traditional scheduling algorithms often rely on frequent rescheduling when new jobs arrive, resulting in low responsiveness and difficulty in m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,279 Views
22 Pages

15 March 2022

To solve the problem of inserting new job into flexible job-shops, this paper proposes a dynamic self-learning artificial bee colony (DSLABC) optimization algorithm to solve dynamic flexible job-shop scheduling problem (DFJSP). Through the reasonable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
106 Citations
12,887 Views
20 Pages

13 April 2022

The production process of a smart factory is complex and dynamic. As the core of manufacturing management, the research into the flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) focuses on optimizing scheduling decisions in real time, according to the cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,378 Views
25 Pages

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Extended Flexible Job Shop Scheduling

  • Shaoming Peng,
  • Gang Xiong,
  • Jing Yang,
  • Zhen Shen,
  • Tariku Sinshaw Tamir,
  • Zhikun Tao,
  • Yunjun Han and
  • Fei-Yue Wang

22 December 2023

An extended flexible job scheduling problem is presented with characteristics of technology and path flexibility (dual flexibility), varied transportation time, and an uncertain environment. The scheduling can greatly increase efficiency and security...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,285 Views
23 Pages

21 April 2023

In a flexible job shop problem with transportation (FJSPT), a typical flexible manufacturing system comprises transporters that pick up and deliver jobs for processing at flexible job shops. This problem has grown in importance through the wide use o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,416 Views
21 Pages

The flexible job shop scheduling problem with job precedence constraints (FJSP-JPC) is highly relevant in industrial production scenarios involving assembly operations. Traditional methods, such as mathematical programming and meta-heuristics, often...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,443 Views
13 Pages

An Improved Shuffled Frog-Leaping Algorithm for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem

  • Kong Lu,
  • Li Ting,
  • Wang Keming,
  • Zhu Hanbing,
  • Takano Makoto and
  • Yu Bin

4 February 2015

The flexible job shop scheduling problem is a well-known combinatorial optimization problem. This paper proposes an improved shuffled frog-leaping algorithm to solve the flexible job shop scheduling problem. The algorithm possesses an adjustment sequ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
519 Views
28 Pages

12 December 2025

This paper addresses the flexible job-shop scheduling problem with multiple time factors—namely, transportation time and setup time—as well as job priorities (referred to as FJSP-JPC-TST). An optimization model is established with the obj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,987 Views
26 Pages

19 January 2023

This paper investigates a novel flexible job-shop scheduling problem, where the machines have batch-processing capacity, but incompatible jobs cannot be processed in a batch (FJSPBI) simultaneously. This problem has wide applications in discrete manu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,990 Views
25 Pages

Minimum-Energy Scheduling of Flexible Job-Shop Through Optimization and Comprehensive Heuristic

  • Oludolapo Akanni Olanrewaju,
  • Fabio Luiz Peres Krykhtine and
  • Felix Mora-Camino

12 November 2024

This study considers a flexible job-shop scheduling problem where energy cost savings are the primary objective and where the classical objective of the minimization of the make-span is replaced by the satisfaction of due times for each job. An origi...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,416 Views
7 Pages

24 September 2024

In flexible production environments, challenges such as fluctuating customer demands and machine performance degradation significantly complicate production scheduling. This study introduces a neuro-evolution of augmenting topologies (NEAT) algorithm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,810 Views
26 Pages

31 March 2024

With the rapid development of economic globalization and green manufacturing, traditional flexible job shop scheduling has evolved into the low-carbon heterogeneous distributed flexible job shop scheduling problem (LHDFJSP). Additionally, modern smar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,209 Views
34 Pages

24 June 2025

Dueto uncertainties in real-world production, dynamic factors have become increasingly critical in the research of distributed flexible job shop scheduling problems. Effectively responding to dynamic events can significantly enhance the adaptability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
6,586 Views
21 Pages

31 December 2018

Nowadays, manufacturing industry is under increasing pressure to save energy and reduce emissions, and thereby enhancing the energy efficiency of the machining system (MS) through operational methods on the system-level has attracted more attention....

  • Review
  • Open Access
791 Views
39 Pages

Energy-Efficient Scheduling in Dynamic Flexible Job Shops: A Review

  • Adilanmu Sitahong,
  • Gang Wang,
  • Yiping Yuan,
  • Areziguli Wubuli,
  • Peiyin Mo and
  • Yulong Chen

9 December 2025

In recent decades, the flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) has been widely studied. In the context of green manufacturing, objectives related to energy consumption and sustainability have emerged as essential components of the contemporary pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,585 Views
24 Pages

Adaptive Population NSGA-III with Dual Control Strategy for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem with the Consideration of Energy Consumption and Weight

  • Mingliang Wu,
  • Dongsheng Yang,
  • Bowen Zhou,
  • Zhile Yang,
  • Tianyi Liu,
  • Ligang Li,
  • Zhongfeng Wang and
  • Kunyuan Hu

9 December 2021

The flexible job shop scheduling problem has always been the focus of research in the manufacturing field. However, most of the previous studies focused more on efficiency and ignored energy consumption. Energy, especially non-renewable energy, is an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,719 Views
23 Pages

14 August 2023

Green and low carbon automated production has become a research hotspot. In this paper, the AGV transport resource constraint, machine layout and job setup time have been integrated into the background of a flexible job shop. From a whole life-cycle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,548 Views
36 Pages

24 November 2021

The flexible job shop problem (FJSP) has been studied in recent decades due to its dynamic and uncertain nature. Responding to a system’s perturbation in an intelligent way and with minimum energy consumption variation is an important matter. F...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,642 Views
23 Pages

13 October 2025

The flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) becomes significantly more complex when real-world factors such as due dates, sequence-dependent setup times, and processing times are considered as multiple criteria. This study presents a hybrid sched...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,384 Views
28 Pages

13 January 2023

In this paper, a real-time scheduling problem of a dual-resource flexible job shop with robots is studied. Multiple independent robots and their supervised machine sets form their own work cells. First, a mixed integer programming model is establishe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,557 Views
21 Pages

28 March 2024

In the real world of manufacturing systems, production planning is crucial for organizing and optimizing various manufacturing process components. The objective of this paper is to present a methodology for both static scheduling and dynamic scheduli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
827 Views
31 Pages

9 October 2025

In the highly competitive manufacturing environment, customers are increasingly demanding punctual, flexible, and customized deliveries, compelling enterprises to balance profit, energy efficiency, and production performance while seeking new schedul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
631 Views
22 Pages

28 November 2025

To address the scheduling problem of dynamic flexible job shop, this study proposes a hybrid scheduling method that integrates an adaptive genetic algorithm, dynamic target smoothing, and a deep Q-network (DQN). The scheduling process is formulated a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,207 Views
33 Pages

A Novel Hybrid Whale Optimization Algorithm for Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling Problem

  • Wenqiang Yang,
  • Jinzhe Su,
  • Yunhang Yao,
  • Zhile Yang and
  • Ying Yuan

27 July 2022

The flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) is an extension of the classical job shop scheduling problem and one of the more well-known NP-hard problems. To get better global optima of the FJSP, a novel hybrid whale optimization algorithm (HWOA)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,976 Views
17 Pages

Low-Cost Emergent Dynamic Scheduling for Flexible Job Shops

  • Yue Yin,
  • Xiao Kong,
  • Changqing Xia,
  • Chi Xu and
  • Xi Jin

30 May 2022

Flexible production is a typical representative of high-end manufacturing and is also a manifestation of a country’s national production capability. Compared with other production modes, the key distinction of flexible production is that all fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,175 Views
25 Pages

31 January 2025

The flexible job shop scheduling problem is a typical and complex combinatorial optimization problem. In recent years, the assembly problem in job shop scheduling problems has been widely studied. However, most of the studies ignore the learning effe...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
417 Views
12 Pages

5 November 2025

This paper addresses the problem where optimizing a single production shop within a production chain may not improve the overall performance of the entire chain. To overcome this and synchronize the efficiency of each shop, methods are proposed to al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,897 Views
17 Pages

3 March 2022

With the increasingly customized product requirements of customers, the manufactured products have the characteristics of multi-variety and small-batch production. A high-quality production scheduling scheme can reduce energy consumption, improve pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,325 Views
25 Pages

24 June 2022

Energy-saving scheduling has been pointed out as an interesting research issue in the manufacturing field, by which energy consumption can be effectively reduced through production scheduling from the operational management perspective. In recent yea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,254 Views
28 Pages

22 May 2024

In today’s customer-centric economy, the demand for personalized products has compelled corporations to develop manufacturing processes that are more flexible, efficient, and cost-effective. Flexible job shops offer organizations the agility an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,654 Views
15 Pages

26 August 2024

To optimize the production scheduling of a flexible job shop, this paper, based on the NSGA-II algorithm, proposes an adaptive simulated annealing non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II with enhanced elitism (ASA-NSGA-EE) that establishes a multi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,677 Views
27 Pages

18 September 2024

The flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSSP), which can significantly enhance production efficiency, is a mathematical optimization problem widely applied in modern manufacturing industries. However, due to its NP-hard nature, finding an optimal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,026 Views
17 Pages

24 July 2023

Green manufacturing has become a new production mode for the development and operation of modern and future manufacturing industries. The flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP), as one of the key core problems in the field of green manufacturing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,960 Views
23 Pages

27 May 2024

As the focus on environmental sustainability sharpens, the significance of low-carbon manufacturing and energy conservation continues to rise. While traditional flexible job shop scheduling strategies are primarily concerned with minimizing completio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,415 Views
25 Pages

6 May 2023

This study proposes an approach to minimize the maximum makespan of the integrated scheduling problem in flexible job-shop environments, taking into account conflict-free routing problems. A hybrid genetic algorithm is developed for production schedu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
344 Views
25 Pages

28 November 2025

This study proposes a tri-objective optimization model for low-carbon scheduling in flexible job shop environments, aiming to minimize makespan, carbon emissions and operational costs while incorporating handling and adjustment constraints. To solve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,278 Views
24 Pages

4 September 2023

In many flexible job shop scheduling problems, transportation scheduling problems are involved, increasing the difficulty in problem-solving. Here, a novel artificial Physarum polycephalum colony algorithm is proposed to help us address this problem....

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,763 Views
27 Pages

Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem with Sequence Dependent Setup Time and Job Splitting: Hospital Catering Case Study

  • Fatima Abderrabi,
  • Matthieu Godichaud,
  • Alice Yalaoui,
  • Farouk Yalaoui,
  • Lionel Amodeo,
  • Ardian Qerimi and
  • Eric Thivet

7 February 2021

This paper aims to study a real case of an optimization problem derived from a hospital supply chain. The present work focuses on developing operational decision support models and algorithms for production process scheduling in hospital catering. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,923 Views
19 Pages

An Improved Mayfly Method to Solve Distributed Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem under Dual Resource Constraints

  • Shoujing Zhang,
  • Tiantian Hou,
  • Qing Qu,
  • Adam Glowacz,
  • Samar M. Alqhtani,
  • Muhammad Irfan,
  • Grzegorz Królczyk and
  • Zhixiong Li

25 September 2022

Aiming at the distributed flexible job shop scheduling problem under dual resource constraints considering the influence of workpiece transportation time between factories and machines, a distributed flexible job shop scheduling problem (DFJSP) model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,734 Views
18 Pages

13 September 2024

The study of the flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) is of great importance in the context of green manufacturing. In this paper, with the optimization objectives of minimizing the maximum completion time and the total machine energy consumpt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,943 Views
13 Pages

Solving Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling Problems Based on Quantum Computing

  • Kaihan Fu,
  • Jianjun Liu,
  • Miao Chen and
  • Huiying Zhang

13 February 2025

Flexible job-shop scheduling problems (FJSPs) represent one of the most complex combinatorial optimization challenges. Modern production systems and control processes demand rapid decision-making in scheduling. To address this challenge, we propose a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
3,115 Views
20 Pages

22 December 2022

According to the characteristics of flexible job shop scheduling problems, a dual-resource constrained flexible job shop scheduling problem (DRCFJSP) model with machine and worker constraints is constructed such that the makespan and total delay are...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,123 Views
4 Pages

18 September 2023

Aiming at the impact of machine failure on scheduling schemes in actual production, this paper proposes a multi-fidelity optimization approach considering the preventive maintenance of the machine (MOAPMM). The genetic algorithm (GA) is used as a low...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,964 Views
23 Pages

1 August 2022

Most studies on distributed flexible job shop scheduling problem (DFJSP) assume that both processing time and transmission time are crisp values. However, due to the complexity of the factory processing environment, the processing information is unce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,249 Views
14 Pages

25 December 2021

Green scheduling is not only an effective way to achieve green manufacturing but also an effective way for modern manufacturing enterprises to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction. The double-flexible job shop scheduling problem (DFJSP)...

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