Abstract: The job shop scheduling problem (JSSP) is a challenging NP-hard combinatorial optimization task aimed at minimizing the makespan for scheduling jobs on machines with precedence and resource ...

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Abstract: With increasing complex workflow application and computational resources requirement, distributed computing has attracted growing attention. Meanwhile, cloud computing has emerged as a ...