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     

热图像与瞄准镜分划图像实时叠加处理系统研究

热像仪是夜战中用于观察和瞄准的重要装备,但目前装备的某些坦克和装甲车辆上的热像瞄准镜,本身并不具有瞄准分划,因而也就很难获取目标更多的信息,限制了对目标进行有效的瞄准射击:为了使其热像瞄准镜同样具有坦克微光瞄准镜所具有的功能,作者利用高速数字信号处理器ADsP21535开发评估板,研究设计了热图像和瞄准镜分划图像实时叠加处理系统,从而较好的解决上述问题.     

Appointment scheduling at a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic using stochastic programming

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the problem of constructing an appointment template for scheduling patients at a specific type of multidisciplinary outpatient clinic called an integrated practice unit (IPU). The focus is on developing and solving a stochastic optimization model for a back pain IPU in the face of random arrivals, an uncertain patient mix, and variable service times. The deterministic version of the problem is modeled as a mixed integer program with the objective of minimizing a weighted combination of clinic closing time (duration) and total patient waiting time (length of stay). A two‐stage stochastic program is then derived to account for the randomness and the sequential nature of the decisions. Although it was not possible to solve the two‐stage problem for even a limited number of scenarios, the wait‐and‐see (WS) problem was sufficiently tractable to provide a lower bound on the stochastic solution. The introduction of valid inequalities, limiting indices, and the use of special ordered sets helped to speed up the computations. A greedy heuristic was also developed to obtain solutions much more quickly. Out of practical considerations, it was necessary to develop appointment templates with time slots at fixed intervals, which are not available from the WS solution. The first to be derived was the expected value (EV) template that is used to find the expected value of the EV solution (EEV). This solution provides an upper bound on the objective function value of the two‐stage stochastic program. The average gap between the EEV and WS solutions was 18%. Results from extensive computational testing are presented for the EV template and for our adaptation of three other templates found in the literature. Depending on the relative importance of the two objective function metrics, the results demonstrate the trade‐off that exists between them. For the templates investigated, the “closing time” ranged from an average of 235 to 275 minutes for a 300‐minute session, while the corresponding “total patient time in clinic” ranged from 80 to 71 minutes.     

Disruption management in production planning

We study the problem of recovering a production plan after a disruption, where the disruption may be caused by incidents such as power failure, market change, machine breakdown, supply shortage, worker no‐show, and others. The new recovery plan we seek after has to not only suit the changed environment brought about by the disruption, but also be close to the initial plan so as not to cause too much customer unsatisfaction or inconvenience for current‐stage and downstream operations. For the general‐cost case, we propose a dynamic programming method for the problem. For the convex‐cost case, a general problem which involves both cost and demand disruptions can be solved by considering the cost disruption first and then the demand disruption. We find that a pure demand disruption is easy to handle; and for a pure cost disruption, we propose a greedy method which is provably efficient. Our computational studies also reveal insights that will be helpful to managing disruptions in production planning. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2005.     

基于引擎成员的仿真调度问题

仿真引擎作为仿真系统的核心,是HLA仿真联邦中的特殊联邦成员。论述了基于实体、成员和引擎的层次式仿真调度概念结构,及其采用的基于时间序和事件序的仿真调度方案,将作战实体的时间推进和交战处理都归入仿真引擎,确保了全局时间统一性、实体同步性和交战事件的有序性,而且各种参量的设置灵活,便于控制。介绍了仿真引擎成员的设计与实现。该引擎成员在某指挥自动化作战效能仿真与评估系统中得以应用。     

高性能路由器中的分组非精确调度技术

随着网络带宽的不断提高,分组到达路由器的时间间隔不断缩短,对路由器处理分组的速度提出了新的要求。传统的分组调度算法,如WFQ,由于性能和可扩展性等问题,难以在高性能核心路由器中实现。为此,提出了分组非精确调度技术,在不影响应用QoS的前提下对经典的调度算法进行修改,通过简化硬件设计提高调度器的服务能力。模拟分析表明,采用非精确调度技术的SLQF算法的延时特性与传统算法LQF基本一致。     

实时数字场景仿真系统研究与实现

开发在实验室里测试导引头信息处理机的实时数字场景仿真系统已经成为了图像制导武器发展的迫切需要。介绍了一个由高性能PC机和PCI插卡构成的实时场景仿真系统,描述了该系统的工作流程和系统结构,以及软件和硬件等主要组件的工作原理和实现方法,试验结果表明系统能够满足实际应用的需要。     

Transshipment through crossdocks with inventory and time windows

A major challenge in making supply meet demand is to coordinate transshipments across the supply chain to reduce costs and increase service levels in the face of demand fluctuations, short lead times, warehouse limitations, and transportation and inventory costs. In particular, transshipment through crossdocks, where just‐in‐time objectives prevail, requires precise scheduling between suppliers, crossdocks, and customers. In this work, we study the transshipment problem with supplier and customer time windows where flow is constrained by transportation schedules and warehouse capacities. Transportation is provided by fixed or flexible schedules and lot‐sizing is dealt with through multiple shipments. We develop polynomial‐time algorithms or, otherwise, provide the complexity of the problems studied. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2005     

On the asymptotic optimality of algorithms for the flow shop problem with release dates

We consider the nonpermutation flow shop problem with release dates, with the objective of minimizing the sum of the weighted completion times on the final machine. Since the problem is NP‐hard, we focus on the analysis of the performance of several approximation algorithms, all of which are related to the classical Weighted Shortest Processing Time Among Available Jobs heuristic. In particular, we perform a probabilistic analysis and prove that two online heuristics and one offline heuristic are asymptotically optimal. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2005.     

多专业批量维修任务调度方法研究

通过对不同专业设置方式下的维修任务调度问题进行分析,以最小化批量维修任务的维修时间为目标,将考虑专业维修顺序的批量维修任务调度问题分成两步进行求解,首先,建立了批量维修任务在专业领域内的调度及优化模型;其次,提出了基于NEH的批量维修任务排序方法．最后,通过实例对模型和方法的正确性和可行性进行了说明和验证,实例结果表明,该方法更贴近于实际,实现了快速、有效地解决维修任务调度问题,