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Single Machine Preemptive Scheduling to Minimize the Weighted Number of Late Jobs with Deadlines and Nested Release/Due Date Intervals

Valery S. Gordon, F. Werner, O. A. Yanushkevich (2010)

RAIRO - Operations Research

This paper is devoted to the following version of the single machine preemptive scheduling problem of minimizing the weighted number of late jobs. A processing time, a release date, a due date and a weight of each job are given. Certain jobs are specified to be completed in time, i.e., their due dates are assigned to be deadlines, while the other jobs are allowed to be completed after their due dates. The release/due date intervals are nested, i.e., no two of them overlap (either they have...

Solution approaches to large shift scheduling problems

Monia Rekik, Jean-François Cordeau, François Soumis (2008)

RAIRO - Operations Research

This paper considers large shift scheduling problems with different shift start times and lengths, fractionable breaks and work stretch duration restrictions. Two solution approaches are proposed to solve the problems over a multiple-day planning horizon. The first approach is based on a local branching strategy and the second one is based on a temporal decomposition of the problem. Local branching is very efficient in finding good feasible solutions when compared to a classical branch-and-bound...

Solving multi-agent scheduling problems on parallel machines with a global objective function

F. Sadi, A. Soukhal, J.-C. Billaut (2014)

RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle

In this study, we consider a scheduling environment with m(m ≥ 1) parallel machines. The set of jobs to schedule is divided into K disjoint subsets. Each subset of jobs is associated with one agent. The K agents compete to perform their jobs on common resources. The objective is to find a schedule that minimizes a global objective function f0, while maintaining the regular objective function of each agent, fk, at a level no greater than a fixed value, εk (fk ∈ {fkmax, ∑fk}, k = 0, ..., K). This...

Solving systems of two–sided (max, min)–linear equations

Martin Gavalec, Karel Zimmermann (2010)

Kybernetika

A finite iteration method for solving systems of (max, min)-linear equations is presented. The systems have variables on both sides of the equations. The algorithm has polynomial complexity and may be extended to wider classes of equations with a similar structure.

Some scheduling problems with past sequence dependent setup times under the effects of nonlinear deterioration and time-dependent learning

M. Duran Toksarı, Daniel Oron, Ertan Güner (2010)

RAIRO - Operations Research

This paper studies scheduling problems which include a combination of nonlinear job deterioration and a time-dependent learning effect. We use past sequence dependent (p-s-d) setup times, which is first introduced by Koulamas and Kyparisis [Eur. J. Oper. Res.187 (2008) 1045–1049]. They considered a new form of setup times which depend on all already scheduled jobs from the current batch. Job deterioration and learning co-exist in various real life scheduling settings. By the effects of learning...

Strategies for LP-based solving a general class of scheduling problems.

Laureano F. Escudero, Gloria Pérez Sáinz de Rozas (1990)

Trabajos de Investigación Operativa

In this work we describe some strategies that have been proved to be very efficient for solving the following type of scheduling problems: Assume a set of jobs is to be performed along a planning horizon by selecting one from several alternatives for doing so. Besides selecting the alternative for each job, the target consists of choosing the periods at which each component of the work will be done, such that a set of scheduling and technological constraints is satisfied. The problem is formulated...

The complexity of short schedules for uet bipartite graphs

Evripidis Bampis (2010)

RAIRO - Operations Research

We show that the problem of deciding if there is a schedule of length three for the multiprocessor scheduling problem on identical machines and unit execution time tasks in -complete even for bipartite graphs, i.e. for precedence graphs of depth one. This complexity result extends a classical result of Lenstra and Rinnoy Kan [5].

Timed Petri-net based formulation and an algorithm for the optimal scheduling of batch plants

Tianlong Gu, Parisa Bahri, Guoyong Cai (2003)

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

The effective scheduling of operations in batch plants has a great potential for high economic returns, in which the formulation and an optimal solution algorithm are the main issues of study. Petri nets have proven to be a promising technique for solving many difficult problems associated with the modelling, formal analysis, design and coordination control of discrete-event systems. One of the major advantages of using a Petri-net model is that the same model can be used for the analysis of behavioural...

Un algorithme GRASP pour le problème de planification de techniciens et d'interventions pour les télécommunications

Sylvain Boussier, Hideki Hashimoto, Michel Vasquez, Christophe Wilbaut (2009)

RAIRO - Operations Research

Le problème de planification de techniciens et d'interventions pour les télécommunications (TIST pour Technicians and Interventions Scheduling Problem for Telecommunications) comprend la planification d'interventions et l'affectation d'équipes de techniciens à ces interventions. Chaque intervention est caractérisée, entre autres, par une priorité. L'objectif de ce problème est de séquencer les interventions en tenant compte de leur priorité tout en satisfaisant un ensemble de contraintes comme...

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