Download or read book Complexity and Solutions of Some Three Stage Flow Shop Scheduling Problems written by Achugbue, James O and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complexity In Numerical Optimization written by Panos M Pardalos and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1993-07-31 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computational complexity, originated from the interactions between computer science and numerical optimization, is one of the major theories that have revolutionized the approach to solving optimization problems and to analyzing their intrinsic difficulty.The main focus of complexity is the study of whether existing algorithms are efficient for the solution of problems, and which problems are likely to be tractable.The quest for developing efficient algorithms leads also to elegant general approaches for solving optimization problems, and reveals surprising connections among problems and their solutions.This book is a collection of articles on recent complexity developments in numerical optimization. The topics covered include complexity of approximation algorithms, new polynomial time algorithms for convex quadratic minimization, interior point algorithms, complexity issues regarding test generation of NP-hard problems, complexity of scheduling problems, min-max, fractional combinatorial optimization, fixed point computations and network flow problems.The collection of articles provide a broad spectrum of the direction in which research is going and help to elucidate the nature of computational complexity in optimization. The book will be a valuable source of information to faculty, students and researchers in numerical optimization and related areas.
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].
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: Using simplified notation and revealing unifying concepts, this book covers flow shop systems including two-machine, flexible and stochastic, and examines the reentrant flow shop, in which a job may be reprocessed at the same station or sequence of stations.
Download or read book Scheduling Theory Single Stage Systems written by V. Tanaev and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scheduling theory is an important branch of operations research. Problems studied within the framework of that theory have numerous applications in various fields of human activity. As an independent discipline scheduling theory appeared in the middle of the fifties, and has attracted the attention of researchers in many countries. In the Soviet Union, research in this direction has been mainly related to production scheduling, especially to the development of automated systems for production control. In 1975 Nauka ("Science") Publishers, Moscow, issued two books providing systematic descriptions of scheduling theory. The first one was the Russian translation of the classical book Theory of Scheduling by American mathematicians R. W. Conway, W. L. Maxwell and L. W. Miller. The other one was the book Introduction to Scheduling Theory by Soviet mathematicians V. S. Tanaev and V. V. Shkurba. These books well complement each other. Both. books well represent major results known by that time, contain an exhaustive bibliography on the subject. Thus, the books, as well as the Russian translation of Computer and Job-Shop Scheduling Theory edited by E. G. Coffman, Jr., (Nauka, 1984) have contributed to the development of scheduling theory in the Soviet Union. Many different models, the large number of new results make it difficult for the researchers who work in related fields to follow the fast development of scheduling theory and to master new methods and approaches quickly.
Download or read book Scheduling Theory written by V. Tanaev and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An increasing interest to scheduling theory can be attributed to the high level of automation of all branches of human activity. The quality of modern production essentially depends on the planning decisions taken at different stages of a production process. Moreover, while the quality of these decisions is improving, the time and flexibility requirements for decision-making are becoming more important. All this stimulates scheduling research. Started as an independent discipline in the early fifties, it now has become an important branch of operations research. In the eighties, the largest Russian publishing house for scientific literature Nauka Publishers, Moscow, issued two books by a group of Byelorussian mathematicians: Scheduling Theory. Single-Stage Systems by V. S. Tanaev, V. S. Gordon and Y. M. Shafransky (1984) and Scheduling Theory. Multi-Stage Systems by V. S. Tanaev, Y. N. Sotskov and V. A. Strusevich (1989). Originally published in Russian, these two books cover two different major problem areas of scheduling theory and can be considered as a two-volume monograph that provides a systematic and comprehensive exposition of the subject. The authors are grateful to Kluwer Academic Publishers for creating the opportunity to publish the English translations of these two books. We are indebted to M. Hazewinkel, J. K. Lenstra, A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan, D. B. Shmoys and W. Szwarc for their supporting the idea of translating the books into English.
Download or read book Production Planning and Industrial Scheduling written by Dileep R. Sule and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's extremely competitive manufacturing market, effective production planning and scheduling processes are critical to streamlining production and increasing profits. Success in these areas means increased efficiency, capacity utilization, and reduced time required to complete jobs. From the initial stages of plant location and capacity dete
Download or read book Proceedings of the First International Conference on Genetic Algorithms and their Applications written by John J. Grefenstette and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer solutions to many difficult problems in science and engineering require the use of automatic search methods that consider a large number of possible solutions to the given problems. This book describes recent advances in the theory and practice of one such search method, called Genetic Algorithms. Genetic algorithms are evolutionary search techniques based on principles derived from natural population genetics, and are currently being applied to a variety of difficult problems in science, engineering, and artificial intelligence.
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.
Download or read book Mathematics of Operations Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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)
Download or read book Fuzzy Sets Based Heuristics for Optimization written by José-Luis Verdegay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this volume is to show how Fuzzy Sets and Systems can help to provide robust and adaptive heuristic optimization algorithms in a variety of situations. The book presents the state of the art and gives a broad overview on the real practical applications that Fuzzy Sets, based on heuristic algorithms, have.
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.
Download or read book 3 Stage Flow Shop Scheduling Problem with Multiple Resources written by Kristine McSkimming and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Particle Swarm Optimization and Intelligence Advances and Applications written by Parsopoulos, Konstantinos E. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-01-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents the most recent and established developments of Particle swarm optimization (PSO) within a unified framework by noted researchers in the field"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving written by Millie Pant and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings of SocProS 2013 serve as an academic bonanza for scientists and researchers working in the field of Soft Computing. This book contains theoretical as well as practical aspects of Soft Computing, an umbrella term for techniques like fuzzy logic, neural networks and evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence algorithms etc. This book will be beneficial for the young as well as experienced researchers dealing with complex and intricate real world problems for which finding a solution by traditional methods is very difficult. The different areas covered in the proceedings are: Image Processing, Cryptanalysis, Supply Chain Management, Newly Proposed Nature Inspired Algorithms, Optimization, Problems related to Medical and Health Care, Networking etc.
Download or read book Solving Permutation Flow shop Scheduling Problems Using Local Search and Constraint Programming written by James Gibbons and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstraction is a well known technique within Artificial Intelligence. Although it has been used to solve a variety of problems, it has not been widely applied to scheduling problems. The central thesis of this dissertation is that by applying abstraction to Permutation Flow-shop Scheduling Problems (PFSPs), it is possible to make the problems easier to solve, although we expect to pay a price for this improvement through a decrease in the quality of the solution. In order to solve the problems more easily, we consider three different types of abstraction. These three different approaches all have the same goal: reducing problem complexity. In order to achieve this they all concentrate on making the problem smaller. By choosing three different methods, it allows us to compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of each method of abstraction. It was believed that abstraction would be independent of the solve technique that was applied to the problem, however this was not the case. Abstraction was tested using tabu search and constraint programming and behaved differently using the two different techniques. We conclude that while abstraction does lead to quicker and better solutions in some cases, this is not universally the case.
