Une Approche Hybride de Simulation-Optimisation Basée sur la fouille de Données pour les problèmes d'ordonnancement. (A Hybrid Simulation/Optimization Approach to Scheduling Control using Data Mining)

Acknowledgment This dissertation would not have been possible without the guidance and the help of several individuals who in one way or the other contributed and extended their valuable assistance in the preparation and completion of this work. I would like to thank Professor Henri PIERREVAL and Professor Jean-Charles BILLAUT for accepting my request to examine this thesis as the official referees. I am also thankful to Professor Abdelhakem ARTIBA and Associate Professor Christos DIMOPOULOS for accepting the invitation to attend my thesis defense. I highly appreciate them all for sparing some time and being flexible in the dates despite their busy schedules. My utmost gratitude to my advisor Professor Pierre CASTAGNA, for his steadfast encouragement , kind concern and consideration during this work. I would like to express the deepest appreciation to my thesis co-advisor, Dr. Nasser MEBARKI who continually and convincingly conveyed a spirit of research. His wide knowledge and logical way of thinking has been a great value for me. He provided me with an untiring help, valuables suggestions and detailed and constructive insightful comments throughout this work. Thank you very much for patiently correcting and editing my manuscript as well. Without his guidance and persistent help this dissertation would have not been possible. I greatly admire the persistent and meticulous attitude of Professor Jean-Jacque Loiseau, incharge of the research team ACSED (Analyse et Commande des Systèmesà Evénen-ments Discrets). I wish to extend my warmest thanks to all members of the team for their support and encouragement. In particular, I would like to thank Dr. Guillaume Pinot and Dr. Olivier Boutin for offering their advice and suggestions whenever I needed them. I would like to thank all the staff members at the IRCCyN for all their help, technical and moral support. 2 Special thanks goes to Mme Somia ASHRAF, who encouraged me a lot to initiate this work in France. Furthermore, I am greatly thankful to Miss Qudsia and Miss Brigette at Alliance Française, Islamabad. Where would I be without my family? My deepest gratitude goes to my family for their unflagging love and support throughout my life; this dissertation is simply impossible without them. I am greatly indebted to my father for his great care and attention, sparing no effort to provide the best possible environment for me to grow up and showing me the joy of intellectual pursuit ever since I was a child. Although …