Combinatorial auctions are increasingly being used to allocate bundles of items among interested bidders. However, as the number of bundles increases, it takes exponentially longer to solve for the winners in the auction. In such situations, regular solvers such as IBM CPLEX or AMPL fail to...

The smart workshop is a powerful tool for manufacturing companies to reduce waste and improve production efficiency through real-time data analysis for self-organized production. Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) have been widely used for material handling in smart workshop due to their high...

The problem of scheduling jobs on parallel machines (identical, uniform, or unrelated), under incompatibility relation modeled as a block graph, under the makespan optimality criterion, is considered in this paper. No two jobs that are in the relation (equivalently in the same block) may be...