Metaheuristics for Production Systems

A Literature Survey on Metaheuristics in Production Systems.- Solving Unidirectional Flow Path Design Problems Using Metaheuristics.- Iterated Great Deluge for the Dynamic Facility Layout Problem.- Optimization Approaches for Multi-Level Assembly Systems Under Stochastic Lead Times.- An Adapted NSGA-H Algorithm for a Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS) Design Under Machines Reliability Constraints.- Levy Strategy Based Metaheuristic for Smart Grid.- Minimising Safety Stock and Lead Time in Production Systems Under Guaranteed-Service Time Models by Swarm Intelligence.- Tabu Search Approaches for Two Car Sequencing Problems with Smoothing Constraints.- Investigations on Performance Evaluation of Scheduling Heuristics and Metaheuristics in a Parallel machine Environment.- Scheduling Complex Manufacturing Systems Using a Genetic Algorithm.- An Efficient Heuristic to Minimize the Total Tardiness in the Parallel Machines Scheduling Problem.- Integrated Planning and Scheduling with Dynamic Analysis and Control of Service Level and Costs.- Meta-heuristics Approaches for the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem.- Fuzzy Modeling of Single Machine Scheduling Problems Including the Learning Effect.

Prof. El-Ghazali Talbi received the Master and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science, both from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in France. Then he became an Associate Professor in Computer Sciences at the University of Lille (France). Since 2001, he is a full Professor at the University of Lille and the head of the optimization group of the Computer Science laboratory (CRISTAL). His current research interests are in the field of multi-objective optimization, parallel algorithms, metaheuristics, combinatorial optimization, cluster and grid computing, hybrid and cooperative optimization, and application to logistics/transportation, bioinformatics and networking.

Professor Talbi has to his credit more than 300 publications in journals, chapters in books, and conferences. He is the co-editor of five books. He was a guest editor of more than 10 special issues in different journals (Journal of Heuristics, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, European Journal of Operational Research, Theoretical Computer Science, Journal of Global Optimization). He is the head of the INRIA Dolphin project and the bioinformatics platform of the Genopole of Lille. He has many collaborative industrial, European and international projects. He is the co-founder and the coordinator of the research group dedicated to Metaheuristics: Theory and Applications (META). He is the founding co-chair of the NIDISC workshop on nature inspired computing (IEEE/ACM IPDPS). He served in different capacities on the programs of more than 100 national and international conferences. He was also the conference chair of many conferences (e.g. EA'2005, ROADEF'2006, META'2008, IEEE AICCSA'2010, MIC'2015).

He is author or co-author of a pattern and more than 330 contributions, publications or communications with 1 patent; 3 books (Ellipses, Hermes-Lavoisier, Willey and Sons), 9 book chapters and 60 papers in journals such as IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational research, International Journal of Production Economics, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Computer & Operations research, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. He also published more than 230 papers in conference proceedings. He had presented 19 invited speeches (seminaries or conferences plenary sessions).

He is member of editor board of the book series "Automation and Control - Industrial Engineering", ISTE Wiley, London, since 2014. He is also member of several international conference committees (about 83 conferences) (INCOM2015, IESM 2015, MIC'2015, ), member more than 25 organization committees of conferences. He served or serves as editor to 15 International journal Boards: The Scientific World Journal as part of the journal's Operations Research subject area (TSWJ), International journal of Supply and Operations Management (IJSOM), British Journal of Mathematics &computer Science (BJMCS),

He is Vice Chair of IFAC TC group 5.2. He is Chair of a Working Group on multi objective optimization. He is member of French Universities National Council (CNU) field Automation, Control, Industrial Engineering (section 61). http: //losi.utt.fr/fr/membres/yalaoui.html.. He is member and expert for French ANR agency, and for different agency such French AERES Agency, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Algerian PNR program.

Lionel Amodeo obtained his Engineering Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Engineer School of Belfort (France) in 1993, and the same year, his master's degree in Automatic and Production Management from the University of Franche Comté (France). In 1999, he received his Ph.D. degree in Automatic and Computer Sciences from the University of Franche Comté (France). Then he became an Associated Professor at the University of Technology of Troyes (UTT) in 2000. Since 2010, he is a full Professor at UTT, where he is the head of the Engineer Degree in Industrial Systems with more than 400 students. His research interests include logistic and production systems optimization, scheduling, system design, facility layout and inventory problems.

He has published more than 240 contributions including 3 books, 10 book chapters, 34 papers in international journals and over 190 communications in conference proceedings. He is member of Editorial Board of journals: International Journal of Engineering Mathematics, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, Journal of Modelling and Simulation of Systems (www.hypersciences.org), Journal of Studies on Manufacturing

He is member of the Technical Committee IFAC T.7.4 Transportation Systems.