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Book A Note on Exact Algorithms for the Identical Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem

Download or read book A Note on Exact Algorithms for the Identical Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recently published paper by Mokotoff presents an exact algorithm for the classical P//Cmax scheduling problem, evaluating its average performance through computational experiments on a series of randomly generated test problems. It is shown that, on the same types of instances, an exact algorithm proposed 10 years ago by the authors of the present note outperforms the new algorithm by some orders of magnitude.

Book An Exact Algorithm for Parallel Machine Scheduling with Conflicts

Download or read book An Exact Algorithm for Parallel Machine Scheduling with Conflicts written by Daniel Kowalczyk and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scheduling Algorithms

Download or read book Scheduling Algorithms written by Peter Brucker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides scheduling problems for single and parallel machines and shop scheduling problems, the book covers advanced models involving due-dates, sequence dependent change-over times and batching. A discussion of multiprocessor task scheduling and problems with multi-purpose machines is accompanied by the methods used to solve such problems, such as polynomial algorithms, dynamic programming procedures, branch-and-bound algorithms and local search heuristics, and the whole is rounded off with an analysis of complexity issues.

Book Machine Scheduling Problems

Download or read book Machine Scheduling Problems written by A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Introduction.- 2. Problem Formulation.- 2.1. Notations and representations.- 2.2. Restrictive assumptions.- 2.3. Optimality criteria.- 2.3.1. Regular measures.- 2.3.1.1. Criteria based on completion times.- 2.3.1.2. Criteria based on due dates.- 2.3.1.3. Criteria based on inventory cost and utilization.- 2.3.2. Relations between criteria.- 2.3.3. Analysis of scheduling costs.- 2.4. Classification of problems.- 3. Methods of Solution.- 3.1. Complete enumeration.- 3.2. Combinatorial analysis.- 3.3. Mixed integer and non-linear programming.- 3.3.1. [Bowman 1959].- 3.3.2. [Pritsker et al. 1969].

Book Optimization in Artificial Intelligence and Data Sciences

Download or read book Optimization in Artificial Intelligence and Data Sciences written by Lavinia Amorosi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is addressed to researchers in operations research, data science and artificial intelligence. It collects selected contributions from the first hybrid “Optimization and Decision Science - ODS2021” international conference on the theme Optimization and Artificial Intelligence and Data Sciences, which was held in Rome 14-17 September 2021 and organized by AIRO, the Italian Operations Research Society and the Department of Statistical Sciences of Sapienza University of Rome. The book offers new and original contributions on different methodological optimization topics, from Support Vector Machines to Game Theory Network Models, from Mathematical Programming to Heuristic Algorithms, and Optimization Methods for a number of emerging problems from Truck and Drone delivery to Risk Assessment, from Power Networks Design to Portfolio Optimization. The articles in the book can give a significant edge to the general themes of sustainability and pollution reduction, distributive logistics, healthcare management in pandemic scenarios and clinical trials, distributed computing, scheduling, and many others. For these reasons, the book is aimed not only at researchers in the Operations Research community but also for practitioners facing decision-making problems in these areas and to students and researchers from other disciplines, including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Sciences, Finance, Mathematics, and Engineering.

Book Models and Algorithms of Time Dependent Scheduling

Download or read book Models and Algorithms of Time Dependent Scheduling written by Stanisław Gawiejnowicz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-13 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive study of various time-dependent scheduling problems in single-, parallel- and dedicated-machine environments. In addition to complexity issues and exact or heuristic algorithms which are typically presented in scheduling books, the author also includes more advanced topics such as matrix methods in time-dependent scheduling, time-dependent scheduling with two criteria and time-dependent two-agent scheduling. The reader should be familiar with the basic notions of calculus, discrete mathematics and combinatorial optimization theory, while the book offers introductory material on theory of algorithms, NP-complete problems, and the basics of scheduling theory. The author includes numerous examples, figures and tables, he presents different classes of algorithms using pseudocode, he completes all chapters with extensive bibliographies, and he closes the book with comprehensive symbol and subject indexes. The previous edition of the book focused on computational complexity of time-dependent scheduling problems. In this edition, the author concentrates on models of time-dependent job processing times and algorithms for solving time-dependent scheduling problems. The book is suitable for researchers working on scheduling, problem complexity, optimization, heuristics and local search algorithms.

Book Metaheuristics for Scheduling in Industrial and Manufacturing Applications

Download or read book Metaheuristics for Scheduling in Industrial and Manufacturing Applications written by Fatos Xhafa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-06-21 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past decades scheduling has been among the most studied op- mization problemsanditisstillanactiveareaofresearch!Schedulingappears in many areas of science, engineering and industry and takes di?erent forms depending on the restrictions and optimization criteria of the operating en- ronments [8]. For instance, in optimization and computer science, scheduling has been de?ned as “the allocation of tasks to resources over time in order to achieve optimality in one or more objective criteria in an e?cient way” and in production as “production schedule, i. e. , the planning of the production or the sequence of operations according to which jobs pass through machines and is optimal with respect to certain optimization criteria. ” Although there is a standardized form of stating any scheduling problem, namely “e?cient allocation ofn jobs onm machines –which can process no more than one activity at a time– with the objective to optimize some - jective function of the job completion times”, scheduling is in fact a family of problems. Indeed, several parameters intervene in the problem de?nition: (a) job characteristics (preemptive or not, precedence constraints, release dates, etc. ); (b) resource environment (single vs. parallel machines, un- lated machines, identical or uniform machines, etc. ); (c) optimization criteria (minimize total tardiness, the number of late jobs, makespan, ?owtime, etc. ; maximize resource utilization, etc. ); and, (d) scheduling environment (static vs. dynamic,intheformerthenumberofjobstobeconsideredandtheirready times are available while in the later the number of jobs and their charact- istics change over time).

Book Exact and Heuristic Scheduling Algorithms

Download or read book Exact and Heuristic Scheduling Algorithms written by Frank Werner and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book presents new results in the area of the development of exact and heuristic scheduling algorithms. It contains eight articles accepted for publication for a Special Issue in the journal Algorithms. The book presents new algorithms, e.g., for flow shop, job shop, and parallel machine scheduling problems. The particular articles address subjects such as a heuristic for the routing and scheduling problem with time windows, applied to the automotive industry in Mexico, a heuristic for the blocking job shop problem with tardiness minimization based on new neighborhood structures, fast heuristics for the Euclidean traveling salesman problem or a new mathematical model for the period-aggregated resource leveling problem with variable job duration, and several others.

Book Euro Par 2003 Parallel Processing

Download or read book Euro Par 2003 Parallel Processing written by Harald Kosch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euro-ParConferenceSeries The European Conference on Parallel Computing (Euro-Par) is an international conference series dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. The major themes fall into the categories of hardware, software, algorithms, and applications. This year, new and interesting topicswereintroduced,likePeer-to-PeerComputing,DistributedMultimedia- stems, and Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing. For the ?rst time, we organized a Demo Session showing many challenging applications. The general objective of Euro-Par is to provide a forum promoting the de- lopment of parallel and distributed computing both as an industrial technique and an academic discipline, extending the frontiers of both the state of the art and the state of the practice. The industrial importance of parallel and dist- buted computing is supported this year by a special Industrial Session as well as a vendors’ exhibition. This is particularly important as currently parallel and distributed computing is evolving into a globally important technology; the b- zword Grid Computing clearly expresses this move. In addition, the trend to a - bile world is clearly visible in this year’s Euro-Par. ThemainaudienceforandparticipantsatEuro-Parareresearchersinaca- mic departments, industrial organizations, and government laboratories. Euro- Par aims to become the primary choice of such professionals for the presentation of new results in their speci?c areas. Euro-Par has its own Internet domain with a permanent Web site where the history of the conference series is described: http://www.euro-par.org. The Euro-Par conference series is sponsored by the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) and the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

Book Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook  Volume 2

Download or read book Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook Volume 2 written by Mikhail J. Atallah and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, Second Edition: Special Topics and Techniques provides an up-to-date compendium of fundamental computer science topics and techniques. It also illustrates how the topics and techniques come together to deliver efficient solutions to important practical problems.Along with updating and revising many of

Book Algorithms for Scheduling Problems

Download or read book Algorithms for Scheduling Problems written by FrankWerner and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue " Algorithms for Scheduling Problems" that was published in Algorithms

Book Intelligent Systems in Operations  Methods  Models and Applications in the Supply Chain

Download or read book Intelligent Systems in Operations Methods Models and Applications in the Supply Chain written by Nag, Barin and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides knowledge and insights on present and future AI applications in Operations Management presenting tools and decisions in terms of theoretical and empirical models, methods and proposed applications"--Provided by publisher.

Book Scheduling Algorithms

Download or read book Scheduling Algorithms written by Peter Brucker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains algorithms for classical and complex scheduling problems, new results on scheduling problems arising in flexible manufacturing, and an extensive overview of the area of scheduling. The methods used to solve these problems include: linear programming, dynamic programming, branch-and-bound algorithms, and local search heuristics. In the third edition of the book the complexity status of the different classes of scheduling problems has been updated. New polynomial algorithms for single machine problems with release times and constant processing times have been added.

Book Multiagent Scheduling

Download or read book Multiagent Scheduling written by Alessandro Agnetis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scheduling theory has received a growing interest since its origins in the second half of the 20th century. Developed initially for the study of scheduling problems with a single objective, the theory has been recently extended to problems involving multiple criteria. However, this extension has still left a gap between the classical multi-criteria approaches and some real-life problems in which not all jobs contribute to the evaluation of each criterion. In this book, we close this gap by presenting and developing multi-agent scheduling models in which subsets of jobs sharing the same resources are evaluated by different criteria. Several scenarios are introduced, depending on the definition and the intersection structure of the job subsets. Complexity results, approximation schemes, heuristics and exact algorithms are discussed for single-machine and parallel-machine scheduling environments. Definitions and algorithms are illustrated with the help of examples and figures.

Book Computational Combinatorial Optimization

Download or read book Computational Combinatorial Optimization written by Michael Jünger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-11-21 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tutorial contains written versions of seven lectures on Computational Combinatorial Optimization given by leading members of the optimization community. The lectures introduce modern combinatorial optimization techniques, with an emphasis on branch and cut algorithms and Lagrangian relaxation approaches. Polyhedral combinatorics as the mathematical backbone of successful algorithms are covered from many perspectives, in particular, polyhedral projection and lifting techniques and the importance of modeling are extensively discussed. Applications to prominent combinatorial optimization problems, e.g., in production and transport planning, are treated in many places; in particular, the book contains a state-of-the-art account of the most successful techniques for solving the traveling salesman problem to optimality.

Book Parallel Branch and Price Algorithms for the Single Machine Total Weighted Tardiness Scheduling Problem with Sequence Dependent Setup Times

Download or read book Parallel Branch and Price Algorithms for the Single Machine Total Weighted Tardiness Scheduling Problem with Sequence Dependent Setup Times written by Philipp Speckenmeyer and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scheduling problems occur in a broad range of real-world application fields and have attracted a huge set of research articles. However, there is only little research on exact algorithms for scheduling problems, many of which are NP-hard in the strong sense. We investigate the problem on a single machine with a total weighted tardiness objective function and sequence-dependent setup times. First, we adopt a serial branch-and-bound algorithm from the literature and present a modified branching strategy and a primal heuristic. Second, we use the potential of parallel computing architectures by presenting two parallel versions of the branch-and-price algorithm. Third, we conduct extensive computational experiments to show that our parallelization approaches provide substantial parallel speedups on well-known benchmark instances from the literature. We further observe that the parallel speedups achieved by our parallel algorithms are very robust among all tested instances.