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ICRA
1999
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
An Effective Method to Reduce Inventory in Job Shops
Inventory plays a major role in deciding the overall manufacturing costs, and a good scheduling system should balance the on-time delivery of products versus low work-in-process (W...
Peter B. Luh, Xiaohui Zhou, Robert N. Tomastik
CLOUDCOM
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Scaling Populations of a Genetic Algorithm for Job Shop Scheduling Problems Using MapReduce
Inspired by Darwinian evolution, a genetic algorithm (GA) approach is one of the popular heuristic methods for solving hard problems, such as the Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP...
Di-Wei Huang, Jimmy Lin
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Evaluation of Methods Used to Detect Warm-Up Period in Steady State Simulation
This paper reviews the performance of various methods used to detect the warm up length in steady state discrete event simulation. An evaluation procedure is used to compare the m...
Prasad S. Mahajan, Ricki G. Ingalls
HM
2007
Springer
118views Optimization» more  HM 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Evolutionary Clustering Search for Flowtime Minimization in Permutation Flow Shop
This paper deals with the Permutation Flow Shop scheduling problem with the objective of minimizing total flow time, and therefore reducing in-process inventory. A new hybrid meta...
Geraldo Ribeiro Filho, Marcelo Seido Nagano, Luiz ...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
142views Robotics» more  ICRA 1998»
13 years 9 months ago
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