4 accepted papers
Due to the short life cycles of electronic products, trial run lots of new products are crucial in IC packaging for production verification and engineering adjustments. The processing time of trial run lots may differ significantly from production lots due to engineering adjustments and is difficult
Job-shop scheduling is an important but difficult problem arising in low-volume high-variety manufacturing. It is usually solved at the beginning of each shift with strict computational time requirements. To obtain near-optimal solutions with quantifiable quality within strict time limits, a directi
Many important optimization problems, such as manufacturing scheduling and power system unit commitment, are formulated as Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problems. Such problems are generally difficult to solve because of their combinatorial nature, and may subject to strict computation tim
Job-shop scheduling is an important problem in planning and operation of manufacturing systems. For such difficult problems to be solved daily within short amounts of time, the only practical goal is to obtain near-optimal solutions with quantifiable quality fast. Recent developments of powerful Mix