[DMANET] CfP for the Special Issue "Planning and Scheduling Optimization" in Applied Sciences (IF: 2.474)

A Special Issue In the Applied Sciences Journal

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit your work to the Special Issue of Applied Sciences that is devoted to recent research, current developments, and applications of complex systems planning and scheduling. This includes the principles and practice of the design, implementation, and analysis of exact and approximate optimization methods.

This Special Issue is also devoted to the optimization challenges of modern manufacturing, engineering, and healthcare systems. It also aims to present the most recent developments of operations research models and other applications of intelligent computing techniques used for planning and scheduling in a variety of manufacturing, engineering, and healthcare systems. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Heuristic and metaheuristic algorithms for planning and scheduling problems in manufacturing, engineering and healthcare systems;
Exact algorithms (brand and bounds, dynamic programming, etc.);
Different scheduling applications (timetabling, network routing, crew scheduling, production scheduling, resource-constrained project scheduling, etc.);
Energy-efficient planning and scheduling problems;
Intelligent optimization approaches for intelligent manufacturing systems;
Artificial Intelligence and data analytics (manufacturing, services, healthcare, services and industries of the future, etc.).
Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com <https://www.mdpi.com/> by registering <https://www.mdpi.com/user/register/> and logging in to this website <https://www.mdpi.com/user/login/>. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form <https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/?journal=applsci>. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/instructions> page. Applied Sciences <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/> is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

<>Keywords

planning
scheduling
exact and approximate methods
intelligent manufacturing systems
healthcare systems
logistics systems
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2020. This special issue is now open for submission and papers will be processed as they are submitted.



Guest Editors


Prof. Farouk Yalaoui
Dr. Taha Arbaoui
Dr. Yassine Ouazene



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