Abstract: We study the blocking hybrid flow shop scheduling problem (BHFSP) aiming at maximum completion time in this paper, which has practical implications in the manufacturing industry. A ...

Abstract: In this work, we study the multi-agent decision problem where agents try to coordinate to optimize a given system-level objective. While solving for the global optimum is intractable in many ...

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