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AAAI
1997
14 years 1 months ago
Beyond Contention: Extending Texture-Based Scheduling Heuristics
In order to apply texture measurement based heuristic commitment techniques beyond the unary capacity resource constraints of job shop scheduling, we extend the contention texture...
J. Christopher Beck, Andrew J. Davenport, Edward M...
AIPS
2003
14 years 1 months ago
Economically Augmented Job Shop Scheduling
We present economically augmented job shop scheduling (EJSP) as an example of a coordination problem among selfinterested agents with private information. We discuss its signific...
Wolfram Conen
AIPS
2006
14 years 1 months ago
Exploiting the Power of Local Search in a Branch and Bound Algorithm for Job Shop Scheduling
This paper presents three techniques for using an iterated local search algorithm to improve the performance of a state-of-the-art branch and bound algorithm for job shop scheduli...
Matthew J. Streeter, Stephen F. Smith
EUROGP
2006
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Dynamic Scheduling with Genetic Programming
This paper investigates the use of genetic programming in automatized synthesis of scheduling heuristics. The applied scheduling technique is priority scheduling, where the next st...
Domagoj Jakobovic, Leo Budin
CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An ant system with steps counter for the job shop scheduling problem
In this paper, we present an ant system algorithm variant designed to solve the job shop scheduling problem. The proposed approach is based on a recent biological study which showe...
Emanuel Tellez-Emiquez, Efrén Mezura-Montes...
KR
1992
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Intelligent Backtracking Techniques for Job Shop Scheduling
This paper studies a version of the job shop scheduling problem in which some operations have to be scheduled within non-relaxable time windows i.e. earliest latest possible start...
Yalin Xiong, Norman M. Sadeh, Katia P. Sycara
ECAI
1994
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Constraint Satisfaction for Multiple Capacitated Job Shop Scheduling
We introduce the multiple capacitated job shop scheduling problem as a generalization of the job shop scheduling problem. In this problem machines may process several operations s...
W. P. M. Nuijten, Emile H. L. Aarts
ICTAI
1994
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Distributed Scheduling Framework
A distributed problem solving approach to job shop scheduling is described in this paper. The approach views the system as an Organisation. Agents are assigned di erent roles and ...
Carla P. Gomes, Austin Tate, Lyn Thomas
EPS
1997
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Investigating Parallel Genetic Algorithms on Job Shop Scheduling Problems
This paper describes a GA for job shop scheduling problems. Using the Giffler and Thompson algorithm, we created two new operators, THX crossover and mutation, which better trans...
Shyh-Chang Lin, Erik D. Goodman, William F. Punch ...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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Lagrangian Relaxation Neural Networks for Job Shop Scheduling
Abstract--Manufacturing scheduling is an important but difficult task. In order to effectively solve such combinatorial optimization problems, this paper presents a novel Lagrangia...
Peter B. Luh, Xing Zhao, Yajun Wang