Due‐window assignment with unit processing‐time jobs

In due‐window assignment problems, jobs completed within a designated time interval are regarded as being on time, whereas early and tardy jobs are penalized. The objective is to determine the location and size of the due‐window, as well as the job schedule. We address a common due‐window assignment problem on parallel identical machines with unit processing time jobs. We show that the number of candidate values for the optimal due‐window starting time and for the optimal due‐window completion time are bounded by 2. We also prove that the starting time of the first job on each of the machines is either 0 or 1, thus introducing a fairly simple, constant‐time solution for the problem. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2004     

评估C4ISR系统的目标分配质量

分析了影响防空C4ISR系统目标分配质量的主要因素,并以此定义了5个基本指标.利用线性加权法给出了一架歼击机对一架目标机的分配能力的计算方法,以此为基础提出了不同机场的多类歼击机对多批目标的分配能力的算法.最后通过实例计算验证了模型的正确性和实用性.     

An efficient metaheuristic for integrated scheduling and staffing IT projects based on a generalized minimum cost flow network

Scheduling IT projects and assigning the project work to human resources are an important and common tasks in almost any IT service company. It is particularly complex because human resources usually have multiple skills. Up to now only little work has considered IT‐specific properties of the project structure and human resources. In this article, we present an optimization model that simultaneously schedules the activities of multiple IT projects with serial network structures and assigns the project work to multiskilled internal and external human resources with different efficiencies. The goal is to minimize costs. We introduce a metaheuristic that decomposes the problem into a binary scheduling problem and a continuous staffing problem where the latter is solved efficiently by exploiting its underlying network structure. For comparison, we solve the mixed–binary linear program with a state–of–the–art commercial solver. The impacts of problem parameters on computation time and solution gaps between the metaheuristic and the solver are assessed in an experimental study. Our results show that the metaheuristic provides very favorable results in considerable less time than the solver for midsize problems. For larger problems, it shows a similar performance while the solver fails to return feasible solutions. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 59: 111–127, 2012     

特征结构配置和H_∞鲁棒控制的飞行控制器设计

常规的特征结构配置(EA)方法不能同时满足系统频域设计指标和鲁棒稳定性的要求,而H_∞鲁棒控制理论在设计控制器时,并没有考虑系统时域性能。为此,基于特征结构配置和H_∞鲁棒控制,设计一种直观的控制器。该控制器以特征结构配置作为内环控制器,以H_∞鲁棒控制器作为外环控制器,使闭环系统能同时获得较好的时域动态特性、鲁棒稳定性以及指令跟踪性能力。通过对某无人机横侧向飞行控制的仿真,进一步验证了该方法的有效性。