For years, the guiding assumption of artificial intelligence has been simple: an AI is only as good as the data it has seen. Feed it more, train it longer, and it performs better. Feed it less, and it ...

Abstract: An actual hybrid flow shop scheduling (HFSS) problem with operation skipping is investigated from the steelmaking continuous casting (SCC) process, which plays a vital role in the productive ...

Abstract: This letter presents an enhanced Trust Region Method (TRM) for Sequential Linear Programming (SLP) designed to improve the initial feasible solution to a constrained nonlinear programming ...