The Tardy/Lost (TL) penalties scheduling is a discrete optimization problem. TL scheduling problem is an NP-hard problem. As a result, proposing an optimization algorithm to handle this problem is ...

Introduction Electricity demand in Texas is growing at rates not seen in over 70 years, and is projected to continue ...

The resource allocation for bag-of-tasks in the heterogeneous distributed system is to distribute the tasks to proper processors such that the makespan is minimized. It is a well-known NP-hard problem ...