Learning Dispatching Rules for Scheduling: A Synergistic View Comprising Decision Trees, Tabu Search and Simulation

A promising approach for an effective shop scheduling that synergizes the benefits of the combinatorial optimization, supervised learning and discrete-event simulation is presented. Though dispatching rules are in widely used by shop scheduling practitioners, only ordinary performance rules are know...

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Main Authors: Atif Shahzad, Nasser Mebarki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-02-01
Series:Computers
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-431X/5/1/3