Automated Planning and Scheduling

Amazon is one of the world's leading e-retailers, with sales exceeding US$ 170 billion US. Amazon's e-store sales exceed all of their other activities, such as AWS subscription services (premium, for example), retail third-party seller services, and physical stores.

This chapter focuses on Amazon Fashion, one of Amazon's web stores for which Amazon recently registered a patent. Prime Wardrobe even offers a try-and-easy-return service. This new activity requires planning and scheduling. Amazon took the matter seriously and registered a patent for an apparel manufacturing system to control the production process of its apparel products.

Artificial intelligence already plays a role in automatic planning and ...

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