Metaheuristics for Production Systems

A Literature Survey on Metaheuristics in Production Systems.- Solving Unidirectional Flow Path Design Problems Using Metaheuristics.- Iterated Great Deluge for the Dynamic Facility Layout Problem.- Optimization Approaches for Multi-Level Assembly Systems Under Stochastic Lead Times.- An Adapted NSGA-H Algorithm for a Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS) Design Under Machines Reliability Constraints.- Levy Strategy Based Metaheuristic for Smart Grid.- Minimising Safety Stock and Lead Time in Production Systems Under Guaranteed-Service Time Models by Swarm Intelligence.- Tabu Search Approaches for Two Car Sequencing Problems with Smoothing Constraints.- Investigations on Performance Evaluation of Scheduling Heuristics and Metaheuristics in a Parallel machine Environment.- Scheduling Complex Manufacturing Systems Using a Genetic Algorithm.- An Efficient Heuristic to Minimize the Total Tardiness in the Parallel Machines Scheduling Problem.- Integrated Planning and Scheduling with Dynamic Analysis and Control of Service Level and Costs.- Meta-heuristics Approaches for the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem.- Fuzzy Modeling of Single Machine Scheduling Problems Including the Learning Effect.

Prof. El-Ghazali Talbi received the Master and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science, both from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in France. Then he became an Associate Professor in Computer Sciences at the University of Lille (France). Since 2001, he is a full Professor at the University of Lille and the head of the optimization group of the Computer Science laboratory (CRISTAL). His current research interests are in the field of multi-objective optimization, parallel algorithms, metaheuristics, combinatorial optimization, cluster and grid computing, hybrid and cooperative optimization, and application to logistics/transportation, bioinformatics and networking.



Professor Talbi has to his credit more than 300 publications in journals, chapters in books, and conferences. He is the co-editor of five books. He was a guest editor of more than 10 special issues in different journals (Journal of Heuristics, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, European Journal of Operational Research, Theoretical Computer Science, Journal of Global Optimization). He is the head of the INRIA Dolphin project and the bioinformatics platform of the Genopole of Lille. He has many collaborative industrial, European and international projects. He is the co-founder and the coordinator of the research group dedicated to Metaheuristics: Theory and Applications (META). He is the founding co-chair of the NIDISC workshop on nature inspired computing (IEEE/ACM IPDPS). He served in different capacities on the programs of more than 100 national and international conferences. He was also the conference chair of many conferences (e.g. EA'2005, ROADEF'2006, META'2008, IEEE AICCSA'2010, MIC'2015).Farouk Yalaoui obtained his Engineering degree in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnics School of Algiers (Algeria) in 1995, his master's degree in Industrial System Engineering from Polytechnics Institute of Lorraine (Nancy, France) in 1997, hisPh.D. degree