List of Contributors viiEditors' Biographies xiPreface xvAcknowledgments xvii1 Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling: A Scientometric Analysis 1Amir H. Gandomi, Ali Emrouznejad, and Iman Rahimi2 Role and Impacts of Ant Colony Optimization in Job Shop Scheduling Problems: A Detailed Analysis 11P. Deepalakshmi and K. Shankar3 Advanced Ant Colony Optimization in Healthcare Scheduling 37Reza Behmanesh, Iman Rahimi, Mostafa Zandieh, and Amir H. Gandomi4 Task Scheduling in Heterogeneous Computing Systems Using Swarm Intelligence 73S. Sarathambekai and K. Umamaheswari5 Computationally Efficient Scheduling Schemes for Multiple Antenna Systems Using Evolutionary Algorithms and Swarm Optimization 105Prabina Pattanayak and Preetam Kumar6 An Efficient Modified Red Deer Algorithm to Solve a Truck Scheduling Problem Considering Time Windows and Deadline for Trucks' Departure 137Amir Mohammad Fathollahi-Fard, Abbas Ahmadi, and Mohsen S. Sajadieh7 Application of Sub-Population Scheduling Algorithm in Multi-Population Evolutionary Dynamic Optimization 169Javidan Kazemi Kordestani and Mohammad Reza Meybodi8 Task Scheduling in Cloud Environments: A Survey of Population-Based Evolutionary Algorithms 213Fahimeh Ramezani, Mohsen Naderpour, Javid Taheri, Jack Romanous, and Albert Y. Zomaya9 Scheduling of Robotic Disassembly in Remanufacturing Using Bees Algorithms 257Jiayi Liu, Wenjun Xu, Zude Zhou, and Duc Truong Pham10 A Modified Fireworks Algorithm to Solve the Heat and Power Generation Scheduling Problem in Power System Studies 299Mohammad Sadegh Javadi, Ali Esmaeel Nezhad, Seyed-Ehsan Razavi, Abdollah Ahmadi, and João P.S. CatalãoIndex 327
AMIR H. GANDOMI, PHD, is Professor of Data Science at University of Technology Sydney, Australia.ALI EMROUZNEJAD, PHD, is Professor and Chair of Business Analytics at Aston University, UK.MO M. JAMSHIDI, PHD, is Lutcher Brown Endowed Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.KALYANMOY DEB, PHD, is Koenig Endowed Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University, USA.IMAN RAHIMI, PHD, is a member of the Young Researchers and Elite Club, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch at Islamic Azad University, Iran.