A metaheuristic technique for energy-efficiency in job-shop scheduling

Many real life problems can be modeled as a scheduling problem. The main objective of these problems is to obtain optimal solutions in terms of processing time, cost and quality. Nowadays, energy-efficiency is also taken into consideration. However, these problems are NP-hard, so many search techniques are not able to obtain a solution in a reasonable time. In this paper, a genetic algorithm is developed to solve an extended version of the...