Opportunistic retooling of a flexible machine subject to failure

A set of jobs can be processed without interruption by a flexible machine only if the set of tools required by all jobs can be loaded in the tool magazine. However, in practice the total number of tools required by a job set would exceed the tool magazine capacity. In such situations, the job set has to be carefully partitioned at the start of the production run such that each partition can be processed without interruption. During the production run, if there are unscheduled machine downtimes due to machine failure, this provides an additional opportunity to optimally retool the magazine for a smaller job set consisting of just the unprocessed jobs. In this paper, we study job sequencing rules that allow us to minimize the total expected cost of machine down time due to machine failures and magazine retooling, assuming a dynamic re‐sequencing of the unprocessed jobs after each machine failure. Using these rules, we develop a branch‐and‐bound heuristic that allows us to solve problems of reasonable size. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 48: 79–97, 2001     

基于SWE的空天资源对地观测协同任务规划服务模型

空天协同对地观测是对地观测领域的新趋势。为解决现有空天资源规划调度系统相对独立、协同困难的问题,分析总结了SWE(Sensor Web Enablement)标准,并在此基础上提出了空天资源对地观测协同任务规划服务模型。在此模型中,为实现观测资源共享,建立了空天观测资源传感器描述模型,能够描述典型空天资源的载荷平台、观测机理、定位信息、使用约束和工作特性等信息;为简化观测请求交互流程,基于SOA技术对SWE标准操作进行封装及简化,用户可以在不了解观测平台细节信息的情况下提交观测数据请求。为验证模型有效性,构建了空天资源对地观测协同任务规划实验平台,结果表明该模型具有较强的可实现性和适应性。     

Case‐based reasoning and improved adaptive search for project scheduling

Most scheduling problems are notoriously intractable, so the majority of algorithms for them are heuristic in nature. Priority rule‐based methods still constitute the most important class of these heuristics. Of these, in turn, parametrized biased random sampling methods have attracted particular interest, due to the fact that they outperform all other priority rule‐based methods known. Yet, even the “best” such algorithms are unable to relate to the full range of instances of a problem: Usually there will exist instances on which other algorithms do better. We maintain that asking for the one best algorithm for a problem may be asking too much. The recently proposed concept of control schemes, which refers to algorithmic schemes allowing to steer parametrized algorithms, opens up ways to refine existing algorithms in this regard and improve their effectiveness considerably. We extend this approach by integrating heuristics and case‐based reasoning (CBR), an approach that has been successfully used in artificial intelligence applications. Using the resource‐constrained project scheduling problem as a vehicle, we describe how to devise such a CBR system, systematically analyzing the effect of several criteria on algorithmic performance. Extensive computational results validate the efficacy of our approach and reveal a performance similar or close to state‐of‐the‐art heuristics. In addition, the analysis undertaken provides new insight into the behaviour of a wide class of scheduling heuristics. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 47: 201–222, 2000     

基于动态罚函数遗传算法的电磁探测卫星多星规划方法

针对电磁探测卫星的特点,考虑其主要约束条件,建立了多星联合规划数学模型,提出了基于遗传算法的电磁探测卫星多星规划算法.为处理遗传算法迭代过程中产生的不可行解,引入了基于罚函数法的约束处理方法.针对罚函数法中惩罚系数难以确定的特点,设计了惩罚系数自适应调整的动态罚函数机制.根据模拟的数据进行实验及分析,表明该方法能有效解决电磁探测卫星多星规划问题.     

基于最大保障时间的战时装备维修任务调度模型

战时维修机构承担的维修任务比较繁重,合理、科学地安排维修任务可以有效地提高作战部队的战斗力.对此,分析了战时维修任务调度的特点,建立了基于最大保障时间的维修任务静态、动态调度模型,并提出了相应的模型求解方法.利用本方法在满足作战单元最大保障时间前提下,可使得装备维修效益最大,并可以实现实时动态维修任务调度,有效地解决了一种战时维修任务调度问题.     

优先级管理的全双工交换式以太网实时通信

航空电子全双工交换式以太网(AFDX)以其独有的优势在航空航天等领域的应用不断扩展,但是由于通信模式,无法满足实时任务的可预测性和低延迟等要求,因此,研究AFDX的实时性成为一个重要的课题,为了提高网络的实时性最可行的措施就是采取优先级管理模式,对具有优先级的分组传输问题进行了分析,给出了两种优先级排队模型下,不同优先级分组的平均排队等待时间和平均逗留时间,并进行了计算机仿真.得出:采用具有优先级的分组传输模式能很好的提高网络的实时性.     

Scheduling policies for an antiterrorist surveillance system

This article concerns scheduling policies in a surveillance system aimed at detecting a terrorist attack in time. Terrorist suspects arriving at a public area are subject to continuous monitoring, while a surveillance team takes their biometric signatures and compares them with records stored in a terrorist database. Because the surveillance team can screen only one terrorist suspect at a time, the team faces a dynamic scheduling problem among the suspects. We build a model consisting of an M/G/1 queue with two types of customers—red and white—to study this problem. Both types of customers are impatient but the reneging time distributions are different. The server only receives a reward by serving a red customer and can use the time a customer has spent in the queue to deduce its likely type. In a few special cases, a simple service rule—such as first‐come‐first‐serve—is optimal. We explain why the problem is in general difficult and we develop a heuristic policy motivated by the fact that terrorist attacks tend to be rare events. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2009     

On scheduling a single machine to minimize a piecewise linear objective function: A compact MIP formulation

We study the scheduling situation in which a set of jobs subjected to release dates and deadlines are to be performed on a single machine. The objective is to minimize a piecewise linear objective function ∑_jF_j where F_j(C_j) corresponds to the cost of the completion of job j at time C_j. This class of function is very large and thus interesting both from a theoretical and practical point of view: It can be used to model total (weighted) completion time, total (weighted) tardiness, earliness and tardiness, etc. We introduce a new Mixed Integer Program (MIP) based on time interval decomposition. Our MIP is closely related to the well‐known time‐indexed MIP formulation but uses much less variables and constraints. Experiments on academic benchmarks as well as on real‐life industrial problems show that our generic MIP formulation is efficient. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2009     

预定增益理论在导弹飞行控制系统中的应用

针对导弹在飞行过程中动力学特性大范围变化的特点,以俯仰通道为例,运用预定增益控制理论设计导弹飞行控制系统,即利用导弹空气动力学特性和导弹某些特征参数的强相关性来调整控制器参数,确保导弹在要求的飞行条件下满足稳定性和动态品质.最后通过仿真验证了所设计的控制器满足性能要求.     

改进柔性资源约束项目调度模型与粒子群算法

在资源受限项目调度问题中,将可再生资源进一步拓展为具有能力差异的柔性资源,建立考虑能力差异的柔性资源受限的多模式项目调度问题模型,该模型是对传统资源约束项目调度问题(RCPSP)更接近实际的拓展。提出了基于粒子群算法的求解算法,粒子群算法求解该模型的思路为,利用蒙特卡洛方法根据资源-能力矩阵与活动模式-能力矩阵得到活动模式-资源矩阵,将考虑能力差异的柔性资源受限的多模式项目调度问题转换为常规的多模式项目调度问题,然后利用基于任务序列与模式表示的粒子群算法对该多模式项目调度问题进行求解。用数值实例说明了模型的合理性与算法的有效性。