Abstract: This paper studies a multi-objective scheduling problem in a continuous annealing operation of the steel industry, which is to simultaneously determine the production batch sizes for coils ...

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Abstract: The differential evolution (DE) is a well known population-based evolutionary algorithm that has shown capabilities for solving real-world problems such as resource allocation, multicast ...