A Literature Survey on Metaheuristics in Production Systems.- Solving Unidirectional Flow Path Design Problems Using Metaheuristics.- Iterated Great Deluge for the Dynamic Facility Layout Problem.- Optimization Approaches for Multi-Level Assembly Systems Under Stochastic Lead Times.- An Adapted NSGA-H Algorithm for a Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS) Design Under Machines Reliability Constraints.- Levy Strategy Based Metaheuristic for Smart Grid.- Minimising Safety Stock and Lead Time in Production Systems Under Guaranteed-Service Time Models by Swarm Intelligence.- Tabu Search Approaches for Two Car Sequencing Problems with Smoothing Constraints.- Investigations on Performance Evaluation of Scheduling Heuristics and Metaheuristics in a Parallel machine Environment.- Scheduling Complex Manufacturing Systems Using a Genetic Algorithm.- An Efficient Heuristic to Minimize the Total Tardiness in the Parallel Machines Scheduling Problem.- Integrated Planning and Scheduling with Dynamic Analysis and Control of Service Level and Costs.- Meta-heuristics Approaches for the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem.- Fuzzy Modeling of Single Machine Scheduling Problems Including the Learning Effect.