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Book Optimization Models and Algorithms for Batch Process Scheduling Under Uncertainty

Download or read book Optimization Models and Algorithms for Batch Process Scheduling Under Uncertainty written by Jayanth Balasubramanian and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 28th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering

Download or read book 28th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering written by Stefan Radl and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 1766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 28th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Volume 43 contains the papers presented at the 28th European Society of Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) event held in Graz, Austria June 10-13 , 2018. It is a valuable resource for chemical engineers, chemical process engineers, researchers in industry and academia, students, and consultants for chemical industries. Presents findings and discussions from the 28th European Society of Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) event

Book A Novel Back Off Algorithm for the Integration Between Dynamic Optimization and Scheduling of Batch Processes Under Uncertainty

Download or read book A Novel Back Off Algorithm for the Integration Between Dynamic Optimization and Scheduling of Batch Processes Under Uncertainty written by Yael Izamal Valdez Navarro and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis presents a decomposition algorithm for obtaining robust scheduling and control decisions. It iteratively solves scheduling and dynamic optimization problems while approximating stochastic uncertainty through back-off terms, calculated through dynamic simulations of the process. This algorithm is compared, both in solution quality and performance, against a fully-integrated MINLP.

Book 27th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering

Download or read book 27th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 3064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 27th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Volume 40 contains the papers presented at the 27th European Society of Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) event held in Barcelona, October 1-5, 2017. It is a valuable resource for chemical engineers, chemical process engineers, researchers in industry and academia, students, and consultants for chemical industries. - Presents findings and discussions from the 27th European Society of Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) event

Book Encyclopedia of Optimization

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Optimization written by Christodoulos A. Floudas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 4646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of the Encyclopedia of Optimization is to introduce the reader to a complete set of topics that show the spectrum of research, the richness of ideas, and the breadth of applications that has come from this field. The second edition builds on the success of the former edition with more than 150 completely new entries, designed to ensure that the reference addresses recent areas where optimization theories and techniques have advanced. Particularly heavy attention resulted in health science and transportation, with entries such as "Algorithms for Genomics", "Optimization and Radiotherapy Treatment Design", and "Crew Scheduling".

Book 29th European Symposium on Computer Aided Chemical Engineering

Download or read book 29th European Symposium on Computer Aided Chemical Engineering written by Anton A. Kiss and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 1886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 29th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, contains the papers presented at the 29th European Symposium of Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) event held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from June 16-19, 2019. It is a valuable resource for chemical engineers, chemical process engineers, researchers in industry and academia, students, and consultants for chemical industries. - Presents findings and discussions from the 29th European Symposium of Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) event

Book Optimization Models and Algorithms for Workforce Scheduling with Uncertain Demand

Download or read book Optimization Models and Algorithms for Workforce Scheduling with Uncertain Demand written by Gurjot Dhaliwal and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A workforce plan states the number of workers required at any point in time. Efficient workforce plans can help companies achieve their organizational goals while keeping costs low. In ever increasing globalized work market, companies need a competitive edge over their competitors. A competitive edge can be achieved by lowering costs. Labour costs can be one of the significant costs faced by the companies. Efficient workforce plans can provide companies with a competitive edge by finding low cost options to meet customer demand. This thesis studies the problem of determining the required number of workers when there are two categories of workers. Workers belonging to the first category are trained to work on one type of task (called Specialized Workers); whereas, workers in the second category are trained to work in all the tasks (called Flexible Workers).

Book 26th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering

Download or read book 26th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 2482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 26th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering contains the papers presented at the 26th European Society of Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) Event held at Portorož Slovenia, from June 12th to June 15th, 2016. Themes discussed at the conference include Process-product Synthesis, Design and Integration, Modelling, Numerical analysis, Simulation and Optimization, Process Operations and Control and Education in CAPE/PSE. Presents findings and discussions from the 26th European Society of Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) Event

Book Batch Processes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ekaterini Korovessi
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2005-09-26
  • ISBN : 1420028162
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book Batch Processes written by Ekaterini Korovessi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-09-26 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reduced time to market, lower production costs, and improved flexibility are critical success factors for batch processes. Their ability to handle variations in feedstock and product specifications has made them key to the operation of multipurpose facilities, and therefore quite popular in the specialty chemical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, and

Book Dissertation Abstracts International

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Efficient Dynamic Cost Scheduling Algorithm for Data Batch Processing

Download or read book Efficient Dynamic Cost Scheduling Algorithm for Data Batch Processing written by Alia Al Sadawi and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Batch scheduling and processing play a critical role in many manufacturing and service industries. They are widely used in service industries such as banking to process data which makes them of great importance since data communication, monitoring and execution are essential whether they are done online or offline. Batch processing is defined as the execution of a set of required tasks within a specific time frame without violating predecessors’ requirements and constraints set by the client. The goal is to achieve the agreed service level contracted with clients using the minimum amount of resources. This research investigates the scheduling problem of processing a set of tasks of non-identical sizes and priority using a set of processors. The objective is to minimize the data batch processing cost while taking into consideration the available resources and the tasks predecessors and constraints. Different types of costs will be included which are: servers and software basic leasing cost, rental cost for additional resources needed in case of overload and extra work, penalty cost of failing to execute the batch process as per the Service Level Agreement (SLA), and the opportunity cost representing the cost of idling a resource for any period of time due to inefficient task allocation. An iterative algorithm with an optimization model at each iteration was developed to optimize the data batching process while minimizing the aforementioned costs. A sensitivity analysis is conducted by varying the main model parameters, one at a time to study their impact on the total cost and the problem under study. Also, different network sizes and complexities were tested to study the effectiveness of the developed algorithm. It was found that it is more effective to include all types of costs in one optimization model along with priority, weight, predecessor and time factors. The algorithm proved its effectiveness by allocating files with higher priority and weight prior to other files while taking into consideration time and different types of costs which led to lower batch process total cost. It is recommended that penalty cost and extra processors different costs should be negotiated thoroughly between stakeholders prior to signing the SLA since it was found that those costs affect the time and number of rented extra processors which consequently affects the whole batch process."--Abstract.

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 2013-03-20 with total page 374 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 changeover times and batching. Also multiprocessor task scheduling and problems with multipurpose machines are discussed. The method used to solve these problems are linear programming, dynamic programming, branch-and-bound algorithms, and local search heuristics. Complexity results for the different classes of deterministic scheduling problems are updated and summarized. Also the references are updated.

Book Rescheduling Under Disruptions in Manufacturing Systems

Download or read book Rescheduling Under Disruptions in Manufacturing Systems written by Dujuan Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to the models, methods, and results of some rescheduling problems in the presence of unexpected disruption events, including job unavailability, arrival of new jobs, and machine breakdown. The occurrence of these unexpected disruptions may cause a change in the planned schedule, which may render the originally feasible schedule infeasible. Rescheduling, which involves adjusting the original schedule to account for a disruption, is necessary in order to minimize the effects of the disruption on the performance of the system. This involves a trade-off between finding a cost-effective new schedule and avoiding excessive changes to the original schedule. This book views scheduling theory as practical theory, and it has made sure to emphasize the practical aspects of its topic coverage. Thus, this book considers some scenarios existing in most real-world environments, such as preventive machine maintenance, and deteriorating effect where the actual processing time of a job gets longer along with machine’s usage and age. To alleviate the effect of disruption events, some flexible strategies are adopted, including allocation extra resources to reduce job processing times or rejection the production of some jobs. For each considered scenario, depending on the model settings and on the disruption events, this book addresses the complexity, and the design of efficient exact or approximated algorithms. Especially when optimization methods and analytic tools fall short, this book stresses metaheuristics including improved elitist non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm and differential evolution algorithm. This book also provides extensive numerical studies to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithms. The problem of rescheduling in the presence of unexpected disruption events is of great importance for the successful implementation of real-world scheduling systems. There is now an astounding body of knowledge in this field. This book is the first monograph on rescheduling. It aims at introducing the author's research achievements in rescheduling. It is written for researchers and Ph.D. students working in scheduling theory and other members of scientific community who are interested in recent scheduling models. Our goal is to enable the reader to know about some new achievements on this topic.

Book 12th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering and 25th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering

Download or read book 12th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering and 25th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 2667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25th European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering contains the papers presented at the 12th Process Systems Engineering (PSE) and 25th European Society of Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) Joint Event held in Copenhagen, Denmark, 31 May - 4 June 2015. The purpose of these series is to bring together the international community of researchers and engineers who are interested in computing-based methods in process engineering. This conference highlights the contributions of the PSE/CAPE community towards the sustainability of modern society. Contributors from academia and industry establish the core products of PSE/CAPE, define the new and changing scope of our results, and future challenges. Plenary and keynote lectures discuss real-world challenges (globalization, energy, environment, and health) and contribute to discussions on the widening scope of PSE/CAPE versus the consolidation of the core topics of PSE/CAPE. - Highlights how the Process Systems Engineering/Computer-Aided Process Engineering community contributes to the sustainability of modern society - Presents findings and discussions from both the 12th Process Systems Engineering (PSE) and 25th European Society of Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) Events - Establishes the core products of Process Systems Engineering/Computer Aided Process Engineering - Defines the future challenges of the Process Systems Engineering/Computer Aided Process Engineering community

Book Optimization and Logistics Challenges in the Enterprise

Download or read book Optimization and Logistics Challenges in the Enterprise written by Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world with highly competitive markets and economic instability due to capitalization, industrial competition has increasingly intensified. In order for many industries to survive and succeed, they need to develop highly effective coordination between supply chain partners, dynamic collaborative and strategic alliance relationships, and efficient logistics and supply chain network designs. Consequently, in the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest among academic researchers and industrial practitioners in innovative supply chain and logistics models, algorithms, and coordination policies. Mathematically distinct from classical supply chain management, this emerging research area has been proven to be useful and applicable to a wide variety of industries. This book brings together recent advances in supply chain and logistics research and computational optimization that apply to a collaborative environment in the enterprise.

Book Online Optimization of Large Scale Systems

Download or read book Online Optimization of Large Scale Systems written by Martin Grötschel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its thousands of years of history, mathematics has made an extraordinary ca reer. It started from rules for bookkeeping and computation of areas to become the language of science. Its potential for decision support was fully recognized in the twentieth century only, vitally aided by the evolution of computing and communi cation technology. Mathematical optimization, in particular, has developed into a powerful machinery to help planners. Whether costs are to be reduced, profits to be maximized, or scarce resources to be used wisely, optimization methods are available to guide decision making. Opti mization is particularly strong if precise models of real phenomena and data of high quality are at hand - often yielding reliable automated control and decision proce dures. But what, if the models are soft and not all data are around? Can mathematics help as well? This book addresses such issues, e. g. , problems of the following type: - An elevator cannot know all transportation requests in advance. In which order should it serve the passengers? - Wing profiles of aircrafts influence the fuel consumption. Is it possible to con tinuously adapt the shape of a wing during the flight under rapidly changing conditions? - Robots are designed to accomplish specific tasks as efficiently as possible. But what if a robot navigates in an unknown environment? - Energy demand changes quickly and is not easily predictable over time. Some types of power plants can only react slowly.

Book Uncertainty aware Integration of Control with Process Operations and Multi parametric Programming Under Global Uncertainty

Download or read book Uncertainty aware Integration of Control with Process Operations and Multi parametric Programming Under Global Uncertainty written by Vassilis M. Charitopoulos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces models and methodologies that can be employed towards making the Industry 4.0 vision a reality within the process industries, and at the same time investigates the impact of uncertainties in such highly integrated settings. Advances in computing power along with the widespread availability of data have led process industries to consider a new paradigm for automated and more efficient operations. The book presents a theoretically proven optimal solution to multi-parametric linear and mixed-integer linear programs and efficient solutions to problems such as process scheduling and design under global uncertainty. It also proposes a systematic framework for the uncertainty-aware integration of planning, scheduling and control, based on the judicious coupling of reactive and proactive methods. Using these developments, the book demonstrates how the integration of different decision-making layers and their simultaneous optimisation can enhance industrial process operations and their economic resilience in the face of uncertainty.