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Evolutionary Scheduling: A Review

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Early and seminal work which applied evolutionary computing methods to scheduling problems from 1985 onwards laid a strong and exciting foundation for the work which has been reported over the past decade or so. A survey of the current state-of-the-art was produced in 1999 for the European Network of Excellence on Evolutionary Computing EVONET—this paper provides a more up-to-date overview of the area, reporting on current trends, achievements, and suggesting the way forward.

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Hart, E., Ross, P. & Corne, D. Evolutionary Scheduling: A Review. Genet Program Evolvable Mach 6, 191–220 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10710-005-7580-7

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