In this paper we address the scheduling problem that comes from an ice cream manufacturing company. This production system can be modelled as a three stage nowait hybrid flow shop with batch dependent setup costs. To contribute reducing the gap between theory and practice we have considered the...

Approximately three percent of all children are born with an observable genetic abnormality. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (quot;PGDquot;) is a process by which embryos are created via in vitro fertilization and are then genetically screened to select for or against certain inheritable...

This paper presents a state transition based formal framework for a new search method, called Evolutionary Ruin and Stochastic Recreate, which tries to learn and adapt to the changing environments during the search process. It improves the performance of the original Ruin and Recreate principle...