A robust policy for serial agile production systems

One of the major problems in modeling production systems is how to treat the job arrival process. Restrictive assumptions such as Markovian arrivals do not represent real world systems, especially if the arrival process is generated by job departures from upstream workstations. Under these circumstances, cost‐effective policies that are robust with respect to the nature of the arrival process become of interest. In this paper, we focus on minimizing the expected total holding and setup costs in a two‐stage produce‐to‐order production system operated by a cross‐trained worker. We will show that if setup times are insignificant in comparison with processing times, then near‐optimal policies can be generated with very robust performances with respect to the arrival process. We also present conditions under which these near‐optimal policies can be obtained by using only the arrival and service rates. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2005.     

空域频域不确定条件下电磁探测卫星规划方法研究

电磁探测卫星对区域目标的覆盖搜索在反恐及海上搜救等领域发挥着重要作用.针对电磁探测卫星区域搜索任务中存在的空域频域不确定性,构建了电磁探测卫星区域搜索问题(EDSASP)中不确定因素的量化描述模型及决策要素模型,提出了基于贝叶斯决策的电磁卫星任务规划方法,并以信息探测收益和前端截获收益为优化目标,建立了空域频域不确定条...     

嵌入式操作系统多策略调度模型

分析了目前嵌入式操作系统调度策略的现状,指出了传统调度方法的不足之处,给出了多策略调度模型,该模型根据进程的属性参数决定采用哪种调度算法。多策略调度模型采用两级调度方案,即在原传统调度方法的基础上增加一级调度。一级调度确定多个调度算法的优先顺序;二级调度确定同一种调度算法中,的进程优先顺序。该模型使进程调度更加灵活和高效,应用范围更广。     

Minimizing the makespan in open‐shop scheduling problems with a convex resource consumption function

We consider open‐shop scheduling problems where operation‐processing times are a convex decreasing function of a common limited nonrenewable resource. The scheduler's objective is to determine the optimal job sequence on each machine and the optimal resource allocation for each operation in order to minimize the makespan. We prove that this problem is NP‐hard, but for the special case of the two‐machine problem we provide an efficient optimization algorithm. We also provide a fully polynomial approximation scheme for solving the preemptive case. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2006     

Quay crane scheduling at container terminals to minimize the maximum relative tardiness of vessel departures

In this paper, we study the problem of scheduling quay cranes (QCs) at container terminals where incoming vessels have different ready times. The objective is to minimize the maximum relative tardiness of vessel departures. The problem can be formulated as a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model of large size that is difficult to solve directly. We propose a heuristic decomposition approach to breakdown the problem into two smaller, linked models, the vessel‐level and the berth‐level models. With the same berth‐level model, two heuristic methods are developed using different vessel‐level models. Computational experiments show that the proposed approach is effective and efficient. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2006     

A stochastic programming approach for chemotherapy appointment scheduling

Chemotherapy appointment scheduling is a challenging problem due to the uncertainty in premedication and infusion durations. In this paper, we formulate a two‐stage stochastic mixed integer programming model for the chemotherapy appointment scheduling problem under limited availability of nurses and infusion chairs. The objective is to minimize the expected weighted sum of nurse overtime, chair idle time, and patient waiting time. The computational burden to solve real‐life instances of this problem to optimality is significantly high, even in the deterministic case. To overcome this burden, we incorporate valid bounds and symmetry breaking constraints. Progressive hedging algorithm is implemented in order to solve the improved formulation heuristically. We enhance the algorithm through a penalty update method, cycle detection and variable fixing mechanisms, and a linear approximation of the objective function. Using numerical experiments based on real data from a major oncology hospital, we compare our solution approach with several scheduling heuristics from the relevant literature, generate managerial insights related to the impact of the number of nurses and chairs on appointment schedules, and estimate the value of stochastic solution to assess the significance of considering uncertainty.     

面向两类典型分析仿真的多样本任务调度工具的设计

当在多台计算机上调度很多样本并行运行时,采用手工操作效率低且极易出错。设计一个自动化的任务分发与调度工具可以有效地提高仿真运行效率。蒙特卡罗仿真和粒子群优化算法仿真是两类典型的分析仿真,介绍了面向这两类仿真的多样本任务调度工具的实现原理和关键技术,这些方法具有很好的通用性和可扩展性,可以广泛应用于解决各类仿真任务的自动分发与调度问题。     

任务分配与调度中遗传算子的设计

应用遗传算法等进化方法进行任务分配与调度为越来越多的计算机学者们所关注。基于任务排列的知识表示 ,常规的标准遗传操作算子并不总是有效的。好的遗传算子对算法收敛性及收敛到好点是非常重要的。在列表编码的知识表示基础上 ,设计了三个有针对性的遗传算子 ,即改进的交配算子、内部交配算子和一种作为变异的迁移算子。模拟实验结果与分析表明这些算子对任务分配与调度是有效的。     

两段探测目标的传感器任务调度问题0-1规划模型及算法

为解决指挥系统控制中的调度困难,研究了一类特殊的传感器资源调度问。主要分析了跟踪目标的探测次数、时间间隔和传感器资源等约束条件。用跟踪目标的重要程度之和作为目标函数,建立了一个0-1规划的数学模型,再利用变换将其转化为0-1线性整数规划模型。利用割平面法求解得出最优调度策略,其能在工作量饱和的情况下合理调度传感器资源。为提高求解速度,提出了对应的模拟退火算法。通过对一些不同规模实例的求解,在资源利用率和算法的求解速度等指标上,与割平面法及遗传算法进行对比分析,验证了模型的有效性和模拟退火算法求解的高效性。     

Two‐agent scheduling on a single sequential and compatible batching machine

We study two‐agent scheduling on a single sequential and compatible batching machine in which jobs in each batch are processed sequentially and compatibility means that jobs of distinct agents can be processed in a common batch. A fixed setup time is required before each batch is started. Each agent seeks to optimize some scheduling criterion that depends on the completion times of its own jobs only. We consider several scheduling problems arising from different combinations of some regular scheduling criteria, including the maximum cost (embracing lateness and makespan as its special cases), the total completion time, and the (weighted) number of tardy jobs. Our goal is to find an optimal schedule that minimizes the objective value of one agent, subject to an upper bound on the objective value of the other agent. For each problem under consideration, we provide either a polynomial‐time or a pseudo‐polynomial‐time algorithm to solve it. We also devise a fully polynomial‐time approximation scheme when both agents’ scheduling criteria are the weighted number of tardy jobs.