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Book a note on flexibile flowshop scheduling with two stages

Download or read book a note on flexibile flowshop scheduling with two stages written by jacek blazeweiz and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A note on flexible flowshop scheduling with two stages

Download or read book A note on flexible flowshop scheduling with two stages written by J. Blazewicz and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book scheduling parts through a two stage tandem flexible flow shop

Download or read book scheduling parts through a two stage tandem flexible flow shop written by j. blazeweiz and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scheduling Parts Through a Two stage Tandem Flexible Flow Shop

Download or read book Scheduling Parts Through a Two stage Tandem Flexible Flow Shop written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Flow Shop Scheduling

Download or read book Flow Shop Scheduling written by Hamilton Emmons and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although several monographs and edited volumes have discussed scheduling in general, most of these works survey the field by contributing a single chapter to production systems like flow shops. Flow Shop Scheduling: Theoretical Results, Algorithms, and Applications is solely dedicated to bringing together a huge body of knowledge on the subject, along distinct design features, in order to help scholars and practitioners easily identify problems of interest. This monograph has been organized into ten distinct flow shop systems and explores their connections. The chapters cover flow shop systems including two-machine, flexible, stochastic, and more. Outside of the traditional flow shops that require a job never revisits any stage, this book also examines the reentrant flow shop, in which a job may cycle back and be reprocessed at the same station or sequence of stations, multiple times. The authors have made the material accessible to a broad readership, using simplified notation and revealing unifying concepts. The results unique to flow shop research should provide the seed for research in other areas of scheduling and in optimization in general.

Book Evolutionary Scheduling

    Book Details:
  • Author : Keshav Dahal
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2007-02-15
  • ISBN : 3540485821
  • Pages : 631 pages

Download or read book Evolutionary Scheduling written by Keshav Dahal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary scheduling is a vital research domain at the interface of artificial intelligence and operational research. This edited book gives an overview of many of the current developments in the large and growing field of evolutionary scheduling. It demonstrates the applicability of evolutionary computational techniques to solve scheduling problems, not only to small-scale test problems, but also fully-fledged real-world problems.

Book Lot Sizing and Scheduling for Flexible Flow Lines

Download or read book Lot Sizing and Scheduling for Flexible Flow Lines written by Daniel Quadt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book considers the lot-sizing and scheduling problem for flexible flow line production facilities. Flexible flow lines are flow lines with parallel machines on some or all production stages. They can be found in a vast number of industries. A three-phased solution approach is presented that solves the integrated lot-sizing and scheduling problem in a hierarchical manner. The approach is able to handle several important features relevant in industrial practice, such as back-orders and setup carry-over. The developed solution procedures solve practically sized problems in a relatively short amount of time. One of the procedures is based on a novel mixed integer programming (MIP) model, which employs integer variables instead of binary variables. This makes it possible to find (near-)optimal solutions using standard algorithms such as CPLEX. Another procedure uses two nested Genetic Algorithms. An application of the framework in the semiconductor industry is given.

Book Multi Stage Simultaneous Lot Sizing and Scheduling

Download or read book Multi Stage Simultaneous Lot Sizing and Scheduling written by Florian Seeanner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​Due to a varying product demand (changing product mix) and different production speeds, bottlenecks may shift between the stages. In that case, a simultaneous lot-sizing and scheduling of these stages is recommendable. Hence, an improved version of the General Lot-Sizing and Scheduling Problem for Multiple production Stages (GLSPMS) was developed. Moreover, several reformulation techniques were applied to this model to solve it exactly. Besides, a new meta-heuristic which combines the principles of Variable Neighborhood Decomposition Search (VNDS) and Exchange was implemented to find good solutions, even for a real-world problem case. Finally, further model extensions, e.g., for scarce setup resources, were proposed.

Book Handbook on Scheduling

Download or read book Handbook on Scheduling written by Jacek Blazewicz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a theoretical and application-oriented analysis of deterministic scheduling problems in advanced planning and computer systems. The text examines scheduling problems across a range of parameters: job priority, release times, due dates, processing times, precedence constraints, resource usage and more, focusing on such topics as computer systems and supply chain management. Discussion includes single and parallel processors, flexible shops and manufacturing systems, and resource-constrained project scheduling. Many applications from industry and service operations management and case studies are described. The handbook will be useful to a broad audience, from researchers to practitioners, graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

Book Multi objective Evolutionary Optimisation for Product Design and Manufacturing

Download or read book Multi objective Evolutionary Optimisation for Product Design and Manufacturing written by Lihui Wang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the increasing complexity and dynamism in today’s product design and manufacturing, more optimal, robust and practical approaches and systems are needed to support product design and manufacturing activities. Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimisation for Product Design and Manufacturing presents a focused collection of quality chapters on state-of-the-art research efforts in multi-objective evolutionary optimisation, as well as their practical applications to integrated product design and manufacturing. Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimisation for Product Design and Manufacturing consists of two major sections. The first presents a broad-based review of the key areas of research in multi-objective evolutionary optimisation. The second gives in-depth treatments of selected methodologies and systems in intelligent design and integrated manufacturing. Recent developments and innovations in multi-objective evolutionary optimisation make Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimisation for Product Design and Manufacturing a useful text for a broad readership, from academic researchers to practicing engineers.

Book Handbook on Scheduling

Download or read book Handbook on Scheduling written by Jacek Błażewicz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a theoretical and application-oriented analysis of deterministic scheduling problems in advanced planning and computer systems. The text examines scheduling problems across a range of parameters: job priority, release times, due dates, processing times, precedence constraints, resource usage and more, focusing on such topics as computer systems and supply chain management. Discussion includes single and parallel processors, flexible shops and manufacturing systems, and resource-constrained project scheduling. Many applications from industry and service operations management and case studies are described. The handbook will be useful to a broad audience, from researchers to practitioners, graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

Book Operations Research in Production Planning and Control

Download or read book Operations Research in Production Planning and Control written by Günter Fandel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings volume contains selected and refereed contributions that were presented at the conference on "Recent Developments and New Perspectives of Operations Research in the Area of Production Planning and Control" in Hagen/Germany, 25. - 26. June 1992. This conference was organized with the cooperation of the FernuniversiHit Hagen and was jointly hosted by the "Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Operations Research (DGOR)" and the "Manufacturing Special Interest Group of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA-SIGMA)". For the organization of the conference we received generous financial support from the sponsors listed at the end of this volume. We wish to express our appreciation to all supporters for their contributions. This conference was the successor of the JOInt ORSA/DGOR-conference in Gaithersburg/Maryland, USA, on the 30. and 31. July 1991. Both OR-societies committed themselves in 1989 to host joint conferences on special topics of interest from the field of operations research. This goal has been successfully realized in the area of production management; and it should be an incentive to conduct similar joint conferences on other topics of operations research in the years to come. The 36 contributions in this proceedings volume deal with general and special problems in production planning as well as approaches and algorithms for their solution. They cover a wide range of operations research within product management and will therefore address a wide circle of interested readers among OR-scientists and professionals alike.

Book Scheduling

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael L. Pinedo
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-01-07
  • ISBN : 1461423619
  • Pages : 673 pages

Download or read book Scheduling written by Michael L. Pinedo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-07 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the well established text Scheduling - Theory, Algorithms, and Systems provides an up-to-date coverage of important theoretical models in the scheduling literature as well as significant scheduling problems that occur in the real world. It again includes supplementary material in the form of slide-shows from industry and movies that show implementations of scheduling systems. The main structure of the book as per previous edition consists of three parts. The first part focuses on deterministic scheduling and the related combinatorial problems. The second part covers probabilistic scheduling models; in this part it is assumed that processing times and other problem data are random and not known in advance. The third part deals with scheduling in practice; it covers heuristics that are popular with practitioners and discusses system design and implementation issues. All three parts of this new edition have been revamped and streamlined. The references have been made completely up-to-date. Theoreticians and practitioners alike will find this book of interest. Graduate students in operations management, operations research, industrial engineering, and computer science will find the book an accessible and invaluable resource. Scheduling - Theory, Algorithms, and Systems will serve as an essential reference for professionals working on scheduling problems in manufacturing, services, and other environments. Reviews of third edition: This well-established text covers both the theory and practice of scheduling. The book begins with motivating examples and the penultimate chapter discusses some commercial scheduling systems and examples of their implementations." (Mathematical Reviews, 2009)

Book Two stage Flexible Flow Shop Scheduling with Blocking Constraint and Batching Machines

Download or read book Two stage Flexible Flow Shop Scheduling with Blocking Constraint and Batching Machines written by Hadi Panahi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dissertation, a two stage flexible flow shop scheduling problem is studied, where in stage 1, there are identical batch processors (burnout ovens) and in stage 2, there are identical discrete processors (furnaces). Batch processors perform a pre-heating process on a batch of jobs at a time and discrete processors perform a casting process on only one job at a time. It is assumed there is no intermediate buffer allowed between stages 1 and 2 and there is a blocking constraint between stages one and two. A batch of jobs is loaded into the batch processors based on predefined patterns. Batch processors have capacity limit and only a limited number of jobs can be loaded into the batch processors. This number is determined by the burnout oven size, jobs size and shape, and also by the layout by which they are loaded into the batch processor. It is assumed that the processing times of the batch processors are fixed and independent of the number of jobs loaded. In stage 2, jobs may require a setup time before loading. This setup depends on the job processed last and the job that is going to be processed next. In stage 2 in order to pour the molten metal, pots are used. Larger jobs require larger pots due to higher molten metal volume. Also jobs may have different alloy types and sometimes the pot that is currently being used must be washed before using it for the next job due to the difference between the alloy types of two consecutive jobs. Furthermore, each pot can be used for a predefined number of pot pourings and when it reaches this predefined maximum, it has to be replaced by a new pot. It is assumed that there are different orders of jobs from customers and each customers order is associated with a due date. In this problem, several goals have to be attained while producing high quality products that conform to the established production plan. An ideal production plan reduces the blocking times on the batch processors, reduces the number of pot changes and improves the pot efficiency, reduces the maximum weighted completion time of all jobs and at the same time satisfies customers' due dates. In order to attain all these goals in one production plan, the maximum weighted completion time of all jobs are minimized. The weights are defined based on customers' due dates. In order to solve this problem and obtain optimal solutions, several mixed-integer programming mathematical models are developed and are solved using CPLEX and GUROBI. In small-size problems, it is possible to find an optimal solution, but as the size of the problem increases, these commercial solvers are not capable of finding an optimal solution by proving optimality of the feasible solution they find. In large-size problems, these solvers are not even capable of finding a feasible solution. This problem is inspired by a real industry problem and in order to solve this problem on an industrial scale, optimal approaches cannot be employed due to their inefficiency in solving large-size problems. In order to solve these problems and obtain at least high quality near-optimal solutions, three different search algorithms, namely TS, LTM_MAX and LTM_MIN, all based on Tabu search are designed and implemented. The quality of the solutions obtained by the search algorithms has to be evaluated against a valid measure. While mathematical modeling is a good tool to obtain such valid measures (optimal solutions), they are not reliable in solving large-size problems and therefore in this research they are used to evaluate the performance of the search algorithms in small-size problems. For large-size problems, a different methodology, based on the identification of valid lower bounds, is used to investigate the performance of the search algorithms. Two lower bounding mechanisms are used for generating lower bounds. These lower bounds are compared against the solutions found by the search algorithms. The first methodology developed in this research is the iterative selective linear relaxation. This methodology starts from solving the problem with some of the variables relaxed, and allows for relaxing another set of selected variables in subsequent iterations. The second methodology developed in this research is based on branch-and-price (B & P) algorithm. B & P can be viewed as an extension of branch-and-bound, wherein a column generation algorithm is developed and implemented to solve each node of the branch-and bound tree, thus enabling the identification of higher quality lower bounds efficiently for the original problem. A comprehensive set of experiments are performed to evaluate the efficiency and efficacy of the search algorithms. In pursuance of such experiments, numerous test problems that are representative of the real problem have been generated. There are several important factors such as structure of the problem, ratio of processing times to setup times, and types of setup times that are considered in generating test problems. Since some of these factors are known to be "hard to change", a split-plot design is used to perform the design of experiments in this research. The experiments reveal that LTM_MIN outperforms the other two algorithms in terms of the solution quality. On average TS and LTM_MAX deviate from LTM_MIN by 6.51% and 3.44%, respectively, in small and large-size problems. The average gap of LTM_MIN from the optimal solution in small-size problems is 2.81%, which is very promising. Average gap of LTM_MIN from the best lower bound available and B & P are 31.10% and 39.24%, respectively. In large-size problems the average gap of lower bound obtained by B & P from that by B & B is -14.07%, confirming that B & P outperforms B & B in large-size problems. Finally, in large-size problems, the average gap among best of all three algorithms against the best available lower bound is 14.2%.

Book Euro Par 2013  Parallel Processing

Download or read book Euro Par 2013 Parallel Processing written by Felix Wolf and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-20 with total page 915 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2013, held in Aachen, Germany, in August 2013. The 70 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 261 submissions. The papers are organized in 16 topical sections: support tools and environments; performance prediction and evaluation; scheduling and load balancing; high-performance architectures and compilers; parallel and distributed data management; grid, cluster and cloud computing; peer-to-peer computing; distributed systems and algorithms; parallel and distributed programming; parallel numerical algorithms; multicore and manycore programming; theory and algorithms for parallel computation; high performance networks and communication; high performance and scientific applications; GPU and accelerator computing; and extreme-scale computing.

Book Handbook of Scheduling

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Y-T. Leung
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2004-04-27
  • ISBN : 1135438854
  • Pages : 1215 pages

Download or read book Handbook of Scheduling written by Joseph Y-T. Leung and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-04-27 with total page 1215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers in management, industrial engineering, operations, and computer science have intensely studied scheduling for more than 50 years, resulting in an astounding body of knowledge in this field. Handbook of Scheduling: Algorithms, Models, and Performance Analysis, the first handbook on scheduling, provides full coverage of the most recent and advanced topics on the subject. It assembles researchers from all relevant disciplines in order to facilitate cross-fertilization and create new scheduling insights. The book comprises six major parts, each of which breaks down into smaller chapters: · Part I introduces materials and notation, with tutorials on complexity theory and algorithms for the minimization of makespan, total completion time, dual objectives, maximum lateness, the number of late jobs, and total tardiness. · Part II is devoted to classical scheduling problems. · Part III explores scheduling models that originate in computer science, operations research, and management science. · Part IV examines scheduling problems that arise in real-time systems, focusing on meeting hard deadline constraints while maximizing machine utilization. · Part V discusses stochastic scheduling and queueing networks, highlighting jobs that are not deterministic. · Part VI covers applications, discussing scheduling problems in airline, process, and transportation industries, as well as in hospitals and educational institutions.

Book Computing and Combinatorics

Download or read book Computing and Combinatorics written by Xiaodong Hu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The refereed proceedings of the 14th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference, COCOON 2008, held in Dalian, China, in June 2008. The 66 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 172 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on algorithms and data structures, algorithmic game theory and online algorithms, automata, languages, logic, and computability, combinatorics related to algorithms and complexity, complexity theory, cryptography, reliability and security, and database theory, computational biology and bioinformatics, computational algebra, geometry, and number theory, graph drawing and information visualization, graph theory and algorithms, communication networks, and optimization, wireless network, network optimization, and scheduling problem.