Dear Colleagues,

The consideration of sustainability aspects in scheduling decisions (either as an isolated decision problem or together with other operations problems, such as lot sizing or transportation) is known to have the potential to report extensive benefits for the companies, in both economic and social/environmental terms. It is thus not surprising that the academic literature dealing with sustainable scheduling is continuing to grow rapidly. In addition, nowadays, manufacturing is undergoing radical changes as a result of a number of factors, including the increasing usage of novel processing technologies (such as additive manufacturing), the integration of information and communication technologies (such as IoT or cyberphysical systems), or the adoption of novel production management architectures (such as cloud/distributed manufacturing). Clearly, scheduling decisions in the emerging manufacturing contexts resulting from the intersection of these factors (such as Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing) need also to be assessed in terms of their sustainability. To help fulfilling this goal, this Special Issue is aimed at publishing high-quality research addressing sustainable scheduling in today’s manufacturing paradigms. The topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited, to the following:

• Energy-aware scheduling/smart-energy scheduling
• Energy-efficient/energy-saving scheduling
• Sustainable scheduling
• Green scheduling
• Waste minimization scheduling
• Integration of scheduling and other decision problems (i.e., lot sizing and scheduling, and transportation and scheduling) incorporating sustainability considerations.

Prof. Dr. Jose M. Framinan
Dr. Paz Perez-Gonzalez
Dr. Victor Fernandez-Viagas
Guest Editors

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• scheduling
• sustainability
• waste minimization
• energy-saving manufacturing