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First formulated in the late 19th century by Austrian physicist and mathematician Ludwig Boltzmann, this principle remains ...

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Abstract: The flexible job shop scheduling problem is a typical NP-hard problem, which has strong guiding significance for production scheduling in enterprises. In this paper, we propose an improved ...