Heuristics, Metaheuristics and Approximate Methods in Planning and Scheduling

Metaheuristics for Spatial Scheduling.- Engineering Management & Systems Engineering.- Setting Release Change Costs to Freeze the Schedule in A Single Product Single-Stage Production System.- A Comparative Study of Genetic Algorithms for the Robotic Cell Problem with Controllable Processing Times.- Stochastic Scheduling for a Network of Flexible Job Shops.- A New Approach to Surgical Scheduling?.- Optimization Models and Heuristics for Runway Scheduling Problems.- A Metaheuristic Algorithm for The Runway Scheduling Problem.- Approximation algorithms for scheduling problems under non-availability constraints.- Meta-heuristic for Randomized Priority Search (Meta-RaPS): A tutorial.- Scheduling a Bi-objective Unrelated Parallel Machine problem using Meta-RaPS.- Simulation and Optimization of Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for the Stochastic Euclidean location-allocation problem.- Metaheuristics for a Scheduling Problem Involving Batch Processing Machines.- Product Wheels in Manufacturing Operations Planning.

GhaithRabadi is a facultymember in the Department of EngineeringManagement & Systems Engineering at Old Dominion University.  He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in IndustrialEngineering from the University of Central Florida (UCF) in 1999 and 1996respectively, and his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University ofJordan in 1992. Prior to joining the faculty at Old Dominion in 2002, he was apost doc for one year and a Visiting Assistant professor at the IndustrialEngineering & Management Systems Department at UCF for another year. 



He has published numerousjournal and conference papers and contributed several book chapters in edited volumes.His research has been funded by NASA, Department of HomelandSecurity, Virginia Port Authority, Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, MITRECorporation, STIHL, CACI, Sentara Hospitals and Qatar National ResearchFund of Qatar Foundation. He received the NASA Faculty Fellowship wherehe worked at NASA Langley Research Center in Virginiaas a faculty fellow. He also received the Fulbright Specialist Program award. His research and teachinginterests include Planning and Scheduling, Operations Research, Simulation Modeling and Analysis, Analytics, andSupply Chain Management and Logistics.Hefounded the International Journal of Planning and Scheduling in 2010 and has been serving as its ChiefEditor since then.