Revision
Main textbooks:
• Operations Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing
and Services, Michael Pinedo and Xiuli Chao, McGraw Hill, 2000.
• Scheduling, Theory, Algorithms, and Systems, Michael Pinedo,
Prentice Hall, 1995, or new: Second Addition, 2002
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1. Introduction (6)
• Scheduling, Theory, Algorithms, and Systems, Chapter 1
or
• Operations Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing
and Services, Chapter 1
2. Introduction to Scheduling (22)
Classification of Scheduling Problems
• Scheduling, Theory, Algorithms, and Systems, Chapters 1 and 2
or
• Operations Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing
and Services, Chapters 1 and 2
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3. General Purpose Procedures Applied to Scheduling
(a) Dispatching Rules (10)
(b) Simulated Annealing (9)
(c) Tabu Search (7)
(d) Genetic Algorithm (15)
• (b) - (d) Modern Heuristic Techniques for Combinatorial Problems,
(Ed.) C.Reeves 1995, McGraw-Hill. Chapters 2, 3, 4.
• (a) -(d) Operations Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing
and Services, Chapter 3
or
• Scheduling, Theory, Algorithms, and Systems, Second Addition,
Chapter 14
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4.
Graph Colouring Heuristics (11)
Graph colouring heuristics based on saturation degree
• Operations Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing
and Services, Michael Pinedo and Xiuli Chao, McGraw Hill, 2000
Chapter 8.4.
or
• Deterministic Scheduling Theory, Gary Parker, Chapman & Hall,
1995. Chapter 6.1.
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5. University Timetabling (20)
Approaches to timetabling problems
A Memetic algorithm for exam timetabling
• "Recent Research Directions in Automated Timetabling",
Burke, E.K., Petrovic,S., accepted for publication in European
Journal of Operational Research - EJOR, 2002.
• "A Memetic Algorithm for University Exam Timetabling",
Burke, E.K., Newall, J.P., Weare, R.F., 1996b. In:
(Eds.) Burke, E., Ross, P. The Practice and Theory of Automated
Timetabling: Selected Papers from the 1st Int'l Conf. on the Practice
and Theory of Automated Timetabling, Napier University,
August/September 1995, Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science Series, Vol. 1153., pages 241-250.
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6. Employee Timetabling (15)
Algorithm for single shift schedules
• Operations Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing
and Services, Michael Pinedo and Xiuli Chao, McGraw Hill, 2000.
Chapter 9
or
• "Work Force Size and Single Shift Schedules with Variable Demands”,
Burns, R.N., Carter, M.W., Management Science 31, 1985,
pages 599-608.
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7. Single Machine Deterministic Models
(a) Completion Time Models (14)
Algorithm for 1 || wjCj
Algorithm for 1 | chain | wjCj
(b) Lateness Models (18)
Algorithm for 1 | prec | hmax
Branch-and-bound algorithm for 1 | rj | Lmax
(c) Tardiness Models (11)
Algorithm for 1 || Uj
Algorithm for 1 || Tj
(d) Sequence Dependent Setup Problems (20)
Algorithm for 1 | Sjk | Cmax
• (a)-(d): Scheduling, Theory, Algorithms, and Systems, Chapter 3
• (d) “Sequencing a One State-Variable Machine: A Solvable Case of
the Travelling Salesman Problem” Gilmore, Gomory,
Operations Research 12, 1964, 655-679
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8. Project Scheduling (6)
Critical Path Method
• Operations Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing
and Services, Chapter 4.
9. Flow Shop Scheduling (5)
Johnson's rule
• Heuristic Scheduling Systems with Applications to Production
Systems and Project Management, Thomas Morton and David Pentico,
A Volume in the Wiley Series in Engineering and Technology
Management, (Ed.) D.Kocaoglu, 1993, Chapter 13.2.2
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10. Job Shop Scheduling (27)
Shifting Bottleneck Heuristic
• Operations Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing
and Services, Chapter 5
or
• Scheduling, Theory, Algorithms, and Systems, Chapter 6.
11. Design of Scheduling Systems (20)
Demonstration of the scheduling system LEKIN
• Operations Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing
and Services, Michael Pinedo and Xiuli Chao, McGraw Hill, 2000
Chapter 10
• "Knowledge-Based Approaches for Scheduling Problems",
Noronha, S.,J., and Sarma, V.V.S., IEEE Transaction on
Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 3., pages 160-171.
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12. Fuzzy Scheduling (29)
The basic idea of Fuzzy Rules
Genetic Algorithm for Fuzzy Flowshop Scheduling Problem
• Fuzzy sets, uncertainty, and information, G. J. Klir and T.A. Folger.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J : Prentice Hall, 1988. Chapter ?
• "Flowshop Scheduling with Fuzzy Duedate and Fuzzy Processing
Time", by H. Ishibuchi and T. Nurata, in: Scheduling Under
Fuzziness, R. Slowinski, and M. Hapke, (eds), Physica-Verlag,
A Springer-Verlag Company, 2000, pages 113-143
or
• "Genetic algorithms and neighborhood search algorithms for
fuzzy flowshop scheduling problems", Ishibuchi, H., Yamamoto,
N., Murata, T., Tanaka., H, Fuzzy Sets and Systems Vol. 67,
No.1, pages 81-100.
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13. Solving a Nurse Rostering Problem with Enhanced Tabu Search
The basic ideas behind the algorithm for tabu search
for nurse rostering.
Nurse scheduling with tabu search and strategic oscillation,
Dowslend K. European Journal of Operational Research Vol. 106, 1998
pages 393-407.
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