This paper presents a "branch and bound" algorithm for the following problem: given a project consisting of a set of activities partially ordered by a set of precedence restrictions, with each ...

In this paper, we consider the scheduling problem of minimising the total weighted job completion time when a set of jobs must be processed on m parallel machines with a single server. This problem ...

Global optimisation stands as a pivotal discipline in applied mathematics and engineering, providing robust methodologies for determining the absolute best solution among myriad local optima. Recent ...