Production Planning and Scheduling for Lot Processing

Larysa Burtseva works as a Professor-Researcher at the Instituto de Ingenieria of the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico. She obtained her PhD from the Radio-Electronics University, Ukraine, in 1989. Her research interests are discrete optimization and scheduling.Frank Werner is a Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics of the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. He is the author of over 300 publications, and his research interests are operations research, combinatorial optimization, and scheduling.Rainier Romero is a Professor at the Universidad Politecnica de Baja California, Mexico, having obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico, in 2013. His research interests are combinatorial optimization problems, such as scheduling and bin packing.Carmen L. Garcia-Mata is a Professor-Researcher at the Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico-Instituto Tecnologico de Chihuahua, Mexico. She is the leader of the Artificial Intelligence Lab, and her research interests include the applicability of theories and techniques of non-monotonic reasoning to the solution of combinatorial problems.Brenda L. Flores-Rios holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico, where she is a Full Professor at the Instituto de Ingenieria. Her research areas are software process improvement, knowledge engineering, and knowledge flow analysis.Victor Yaurima received his PhD in Computer Science from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico, in 2008. He is currently a Full Professor at the Universidad Estatal de Sonora, Mexico.Eddy M. Delgado-Arana works as a Project Engineer in Skyworks Solutions, Inc., where he had led many process improvement projects. His research interests include manufacturing planning systems, resource optimization, lean manufacturing, and six sigma methodology.Felix F. Gonzalez-Navarro holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain. Currently, he is a Full Professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico, leading the Artificial Intelligence Lab.Gabriel A. Lopez-Morteo is a Full Professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico. He has published more than 40 research papers and nine books.