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Combinational Approaches to Solve Scheduling Problems

Author : Ashish Kumar Nemani
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Book Synopsis Combinational Approaches to Solve Scheduling Problems by : Ashish Kumar Nemani

Download or read book Combinational Approaches to Solve Scheduling Problems written by Ashish Kumar Nemani and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: In this dissertation, we discuss classical scheduling problems especially in transportation industries. All of these problems come from real life applications and are very critical from the academic as well as the financial point of view. Being NP-hard problems there doesn't exist any well-defined algorithm which can solve them efficiently with good running time, and thus rules of thumbs are still being followed in practice, with very myopic use of optimization procedures. These decisions are usually worth billions of dollars per year and even a slight improvement will have a significant economic impact. Through efforts described in this document, we try to develop some holistic approaches along with heuristics, to get efficient and effective results for these decision problems. This proposed work has the potential of implementation in commercial grade software. We first suggest some hybrid approaches to solve the intermodal load planning problem, which generate very effective solutions within minutes. In our second problem, subset-disjoint minimum cost cycle problem, we suggest several exact and heuristic approaches to find the minimum cost cycles which contains at most one node from any subset. These problems occur very often as a subproblem of other other combinatorial problems. In the third problem, location routing problem, we suggest column generation algorithm and show its effectiveness by doing experiments with benchmark problems. In our last problem, which is very critical in all railway industries, we propose several models based on based on mixed integer programming, heuristics, and other hybrid approaches. These algorithms show a significant improvement over the current practices.

Machine Scheduling Problems

Author : A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461343836
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)

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Book Synopsis Machine Scheduling Problems by : A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan

Download or read book Machine Scheduling Problems written by A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Introduction.- 2. Problem Formulation.- 2.1. Notations and representations.- 2.2. Restrictive assumptions.- 2.3. Optimality criteria.- 2.3.1. Regular measures.- 2.3.1.1. Criteria based on completion times.- 2.3.1.2. Criteria based on due dates.- 2.3.1.3. Criteria based on inventory cost and utilization.- 2.3.2. Relations between criteria.- 2.3.3. Analysis of scheduling costs.- 2.4. Classification of problems.- 3. Methods of Solution.- 3.1. Complete enumeration.- 3.2. Combinatorial analysis.- 3.3. Mixed integer and non-linear programming.- 3.3.1. [Bowman 1959].- 3.3.2. [Pritsker et al. 1969].

Scheduling in Parallel Computing Systems

Author : Shaharuddin Salleh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461550653
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Book Synopsis Scheduling in Parallel Computing Systems by : Shaharuddin Salleh

Download or read book Scheduling in Parallel Computing Systems written by Shaharuddin Salleh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scheduling in Parallel Computing Systems: Fuzzy and Annealing Techniques advocates the viability of using fuzzy and annealing methods in solving scheduling problems for parallel computing systems. The book proposes new techniques for both static and dynamic scheduling, using emerging paradigms that are inspired by natural phenomena such as fuzzy logic, mean-field annealing, and simulated annealing. Systems that are designed using such techniques are often referred to in the literature as `intelligent' because of their capability to adapt to sudden changes in their environments. Moreover, most of these changes cannot be anticipated in advance or included in the original design of the system. Scheduling in Parallel Computing Systems: Fuzzy and Annealing Techniques provides results that prove such approaches can become viable alternatives to orthodox solutions to the scheduling problem, which are mostly based on heuristics. Although heuristics are robust and reliable when solving certain instances of the scheduling problem, they do not perform well when one needs to obtain solutions to general forms of the scheduling problem. On the other hand, techniques inspired by natural phenomena have been successfully applied for solving a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems (e.g. traveling salesman, graph partitioning). The success of these methods motivated their use in this book to solve scheduling problems that are known to be formidable combinatorial problems. Scheduling in Parallel Computing Systems: Fuzzy and Annealing Techniques is an excellent reference and may be used for advanced courses on the topic.

A Non-combinatorial Approach to the Scheduling Problem

Author : Pierre Népomiastchy
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Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book A Non-combinatorial Approach to the Scheduling Problem written by Pierre Népomiastchy and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flexibility and Robustness in Scheduling

Author : Jean-Charles Billaut
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118623398
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Book Synopsis Flexibility and Robustness in Scheduling by : Jean-Charles Billaut

Download or read book Flexibility and Robustness in Scheduling written by Jean-Charles Billaut and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scheduling is a broad research area and scheduling problems arise from several application domains (production systems, logistic, computer science, etc.). Solving scheduling problems requires tools of combinatorial optimization, exact or approximated algorithms. Flexibility is at the frontier between predictive deterministic approaches and reactive or "on-line" approaches. The purpose of flexibility is to provide one or more solutions adapted to the context of the application in order to provide the ideal solution. This book focuses on the integration of flexibility and robustness considerations in the study of scheduling problems. After considering both flexibility and robustness, it then covers various scheduling problems, treated with an emphasis on flexibility or robustness, or both.

Combinatorial Optimization Problems in Planning and Decision Making

Author : Michael Z. Zgurovsky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319989774
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Book Synopsis Combinatorial Optimization Problems in Planning and Decision Making by : Michael Z. Zgurovsky

Download or read book Combinatorial Optimization Problems in Planning and Decision Making written by Michael Z. Zgurovsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on the next fields of computer science: combinatorial optimization, scheduling theory, decision theory, and computer-aided production management systems. It also offers a quick introduction into the theory of PSC-algorithms, which are a new class of efficient methods for intractable problems of combinatorial optimization. A PSC-algorithm is an algorithm which includes: sufficient conditions of a feasible solution optimality for which their checking can be implemented only at the stage of a feasible solution construction, and this construction is carried out by a polynomial algorithm (the first polynomial component of the PSC-algorithm); an approximation algorithm with polynomial complexity (the second polynomial component of the PSC-algorithm); also, for NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems, an exact subalgorithm if sufficient conditions were found, fulfilment of which during the algorithm execution turns it into a polynomial complexity algorithm. Practitioners and software developers will find the book useful for implementing advanced methods of production organization in the fields of planning (including operative planning) and decision making. Scientists, graduate and master students, or system engineers who are interested in problems of combinatorial optimization, decision making with poorly formalized overall goals, or a multiple regression construction will benefit from this book.

Stochastic Local Search

Author : Holger H. Hoos
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 1558608729
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)

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Book Synopsis Stochastic Local Search by : Holger H. Hoos

Download or read book Stochastic Local Search written by Holger H. Hoos and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2005 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms are among the most prominent and successful techniques for solving computationally difficult problems. Offering a systematic treatment of SLS algorithms, this book examines the general concepts and specific instances of SLS algorithms and considers their development, analysis and application.

New Combinatorial Approaches for Solving Railroad Planning and Scheduling Problems

Author : Güvenç Şahin
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Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis New Combinatorial Approaches for Solving Railroad Planning and Scheduling Problems by : Güvenç Şahin

Download or read book New Combinatorial Approaches for Solving Railroad Planning and Scheduling Problems written by Güvenç Şahin and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing yard capacities allows railroads to reduce their core transportation costs. We study the effects of yard capacities on the blocking plan by developing strong lower bounds. The techniques we propose also give strong lower bounds for the degree-constrained network design problem. Main focus of this work is on railroad planning and scheduling; we develop solution methods for a set of railroad problems to find optimal and near-optimal solutions which are also implementable. Nonetheless, we also contribute to machine scheduling literature by introducing a new practically relevant scheduling criterion and to network design literature by developing strong lower bounds for the degree-constrained problems.

Data Correcting Approaches in Combinatorial Optimization

Author : Boris Goldengorin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461452856
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Book Synopsis Data Correcting Approaches in Combinatorial Optimization by : Boris Goldengorin

Download or read book Data Correcting Approaches in Combinatorial Optimization written by Boris Goldengorin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data Correcting Approaches in Combinatorial Optimization focuses on algorithmic applications of the well known polynomially solvable special cases of computationally intractable problems. The purpose of this text is to design practically efficient algorithms for solving wide classes of combinatorial optimization problems. Researches, students and engineers will benefit from new bounds and branching rules in development efficient branch-and-bound type computational algorithms. This book examines applications for solving the Traveling Salesman Problem and its variations, Maximum Weight Independent Set Problem, Different Classes of Allocation and Cluster Analysis as well as some classes of Scheduling Problems. Data Correcting Algorithms in Combinatorial Optimization introduces the data correcting approach to algorithms which provide an answer to the following questions: how to construct a bound to the original intractable problem and find which element of the corrected instance one should branch such that the total size of search tree will be minimized. The PC time needed for solving intractable problems will be adjusted with the requirements for solving real world problems.

Handbook of combinatorial optimization. 1

Author : Dingzhu Du
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792350187
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of combinatorial optimization. 1 by : Dingzhu Du

Download or read book Handbook of combinatorial optimization. 1 written by Dingzhu Du and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of a multi-volume set, which deals with several algorithmic approaches for discrete problems as well as many combinatorial problems. It is addressed to researchers in discrete optimization, and to all scientists who use combinatorial optimization methods to model and solve problems.

Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization

Author : Robert E. Bixby
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540693467
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization by : Robert E. Bixby

Download or read book Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization written by Robert E. Bixby and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-05-20 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereeed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, IPCO '98, held in Houston, Texas, USA, in June 1998. The 32 revised papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 77 submissions. The book is divided into sections on O/1 matrices and matroids, edge connectivity, algorithms, integer Programming computation, network flows, scheduling, and quadratic assignment problems.

Combinatorial Programming: Methods and Applications

Author : B. Roy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401175578
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Combinatorial Programming: Methods and Applications by : B. Roy

Download or read book Combinatorial Programming: Methods and Applications written by B. Roy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Combinatorial Programming" are two words whose juxtaposition still strike us as unusual, nevertheless their association in recent years adequately reflects the preoccupations underlying differing work fields, and their importance will increase both from methodology and application view points. To those who like definitions and consider the function of this book to furnish one for combinatorial programming, I will simply say that it is precise ly this which is exclusively treated here and which in the eyes of the autors is the heart of this branch of applied mathematics. Such was the initial intention of those who in the spring of 1973 gathered tog~ther in Paris to state the work of the Advanced Study Institute from which this book arises. As young as combinatorial programming is, it was easy to see that a two week school was insufficient to cover the subject in an exhaustive manner. Finally the decision had to be taken to reduce to book form, and to organise within this particular means of expression, the essential syntheses and communications. Unfortunately the discussions, the round tables, and the majority of the case studies could not be included in this book which is more of a hand-book on the subject. XIV PREFACE The choice and orientation of the surveys has been guided by two criteria : the importance of already accomplished work, and the originality of the survey to be undertaken.

Scheduling for Parallel Processing

Author : Maciej Drozdowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 184882310X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Scheduling for Parallel Processing written by Maciej Drozdowski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-14 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview and Goals This book is dedicated to scheduling for parallel processing. Presenting a research ?eld as broad as this one poses considerable dif?culties. Scheduling for parallel computing is an interdisciplinary subject joining many ?elds of science and te- nology. Thus, to understand the scheduling problems and the methods of solving them it is necessary to know the limitations in related areas. Another dif?culty is that the subject of scheduling parallel computations is immense. Even simple search in bibliographical databases reveals thousands of publications on this topic. The - versity in understanding scheduling problems is so great that it seems impossible to juxtapose them in one scheduling taxonomy. Therefore, most of the papers on scheduling for parallel processing refer to one scheduling problem resulting from one way of perceiving the reality. Only a few publications attempt to arrange this ?eld of knowledge systematically. In this book we will follow two guidelines. One guideline is a distinction - tween scheduling models which comprise a set of scheduling problems solved by dedicated algorithms. Thus, the aim of this book is to present scheduling models for parallel processing, problems de?ned on the grounds of certain scheduling models, and algorithms solving the scheduling problems. Most of the scheduling problems are combinatorial in nature. Therefore, the second guideline is the methodology of computational complexity theory. Inthisbookwepresentfourexamplesofschedulingmodels. Wewillgodeepinto the models, problems, and algorithms so that after acquiring some understanding of them we will attempt to draw conclusions on their mutual relationships.

Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization

Author : Ding-Zhu Du
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475730233
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization by : Ding-Zhu Du

Download or read book Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization written by Ding-Zhu Du and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combinatorial (or discrete) optimization is one of the most active fields in the interface of operations research, computer science, and applied math ematics. Combinatorial optimization problems arise in various applications, including communications network design, VLSI design, machine vision, air line crew scheduling, corporate planning, computer-aided design and man ufacturing, database query design, cellular telephone frequency assignment, constraint directed reasoning, and computational biology. Furthermore, combinatorial optimization problems occur in many diverse areas such as linear and integer programming, graph theory, artificial intelligence, and number theory. All these problems, when formulated mathematically as the minimization or maximization of a certain function defined on some domain, have a commonality of discreteness. Historically, combinatorial optimization starts with linear programming. Linear programming has an entire range of important applications including production planning and distribution, personnel assignment, finance, alloca tion of economic resources, circuit simulation, and control systems. Leonid Kantorovich and Tjalling Koopmans received the Nobel Prize (1975) for their work on the optimal allocation of resources. Two important discover ies, the ellipsoid method (1979) and interior point approaches (1984) both provide polynomial time algorithms for linear programming. These algo rithms have had a profound effect in combinatorial optimization. Many polynomial-time solvable combinatorial optimization problems are special cases of linear programming (e.g. matching and maximum flow). In addi tion, linear programming relaxations are often the basis for many approxi mation algorithms for solving NP-hard problems (e.g. dual heuristics).

Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Solution Methods

Author : Mehdi Toloo
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128238003
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (282 download)

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Book Synopsis Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Solution Methods by : Mehdi Toloo

Download or read book Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Solution Methods written by Mehdi Toloo and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2022-02-09 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Solution Methods discusses the results of a recent multi-objective combinatorial optimization achievement that considered metaheuristic, mathematical programming, heuristic, hyper heuristic and hybrid approaches. In other words, the book presents various multi-objective combinatorial optimization issues that may benefit from different methods in theory and practice. Combinatorial optimization problems appear in a wide range of applications in operations research, engineering, biological sciences and computer science, hence many optimization approaches have been developed that link the discrete universe to the continuous universe through geometric, analytic and algebraic techniques. This book covers this important topic as computational optimization has become increasingly popular as design optimization and its applications in engineering and industry have become ever more important due to more stringent design requirements in modern engineering practice. - Presents a collection of the most up-to-date research, providing a complete overview of multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems and applications - Introduces new approaches to handle different engineering and science problems, providing the field with a collection of related research not already covered in the primary literature - Demonstrates the efficiency and power of the various algorithms, problems and solutions, including numerous examples that illustrate concepts and algorithms

Algorithms for Scheduling Problems

Author : FrankWerner
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3038971197
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Algorithms for Scheduling Problems written by FrankWerner and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue " Algorithms for Scheduling Problems" that was published in Algorithms

Scheduling: Control-Based Theory and Polynomial-Time Algorithms

Author : K. Kogan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461546753
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Book Synopsis Scheduling: Control-Based Theory and Polynomial-Time Algorithms by : K. Kogan

Download or read book Scheduling: Control-Based Theory and Polynomial-Time Algorithms written by K. Kogan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a first attempt to systematically collect, classify and solve various continuous-time scheduling problems. The classes of problems distinguish scheduling by the number of machines and products, production constraints and performance measures. Although such classes are usually considered to be a prerogative of only combinatorial scheduling literature, the scheduling methodology suggested in this book is based on two mathematical tools - optimal control and combinatorics. Generally considered as belonging to two totally different areas of research and application, these seemingly irreconcilable tools can be integrated in a unique solution approach with the advantages of both. This new approach provides the possibility of developing effective polynomial-time algorithms to solve the generic scheduling problems. This book is aimed at a student audience - final year undergraduates as well as master and Ph.D. students, primarily in Operations Research, Management, Industrial Engineering and Control Systems. Indeed, some of the material in the book has formed part of the content of undergraduate and graduate courses taught at the Industrial Engineering Department of Tel-Aviv University, the Logistics Department of Bar-Ilan University and the Technology Management Department of Rolon Center for Technological Education, Israel. The book is also useful for practicing engineers interested in planning, scheduling and optimization methods. Since the book addresses the theory and design of computer-based scheduling algorithms, applied mathematicians and computer software specialists engaged in developing scheduling software for industrial engineering and management problems will find that the methods developed here can be embedded very efficiently in large applications.