Intelligent Scheduling Systems

Intelligent Scheduling Systems
Author: Donald E. Brown
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1461522633

Scheduling is a resource allocation problem which exists in virtually every type of organization. Scheduling problems have produced roughly 40 years of research primarily within the OR community. This community has traditionally emphasized mathematical modeling techniques which seek exact solutions to well formulated optimization problems. While this approach produced important results, many contemporary scheduling problems are particularly difficult. Hence, over the last ten years operations researchers interested in scheduling have turned increasingly to more computer intensive and heuristic approaches. At roughly the same time, researchers in AI began to focus their methods on industrial and management science applications. The result of this confluence of fields has been a period of remarkable growth and excitement in scheduling research. Intelligent Scheduling Systems captures the results of a new wave of research at the forefront of scheduling research, of interest to researchers and practitioners alike. Presented are an array of the latest contemporary tools -- math modeling to tabu search to genetic algorithms -- that can assist in operational scheduling and solve difficult scheduling problems. The book presents the most recent research results from both operations research (OR) and artificial intelligence (AI) focusing their efforts on real scheduling problems.

Intelligent Scheduling of Robotic Flexible Assembly Cells

Intelligent Scheduling of Robotic Flexible Assembly Cells
Author: Khalid Karam Abd
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2015-11-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319262963

This book focuses on the design of Robotic Flexible Assembly Cell (RFAC) with multi-robots. Its main contribution consists of a new effective strategy for scheduling RFAC in a multi-product assembly environment, in which dynamic status and multi-objective optimization problems occur. The developed strategy, which is based on a combination of advanced solution approaches such as simulation, fuzzy logic, system modeling and the Taguchi optimization method, fills an important knowledge gap in the current literature and paves the way for future research towards the goal of employing flexible assembly systems as effectively as possible despite the complexity of their scheduling.

Teaching and Learning in a Digital World

Teaching and Learning in a Digital World
Author: Michael E. Auer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 798
Release: 2018-02-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319732048

This book gathers the Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2017), held in Budapest, Hungary on 27–29 September 2017. The authors are currently witnessing a significant transformation in the development of education. The impact of globalisation on all areas of human life, the exponential acceleration of technological developments and global markets, and the need for flexibility and agility are essential and challenging elements of this process that have to be tackled in general, but especially in engineering education. To face these current real-world challenges, higher education has to find innovative ways to quickly respond to them. Since its inception in 1998, this conference has been devoted to new approaches in learning with a focus on collaborative learning. Today the ICL conferences offer a forum for exchange concerning relevant trends and research results, and for sharing practical experience gained while developing and testing elements of new technologies and pedagogies in the learning context.

Scheduling in Industry 4.0 and Cloud Manufacturing

Scheduling in Industry 4.0 and Cloud Manufacturing
Author: Boris Sokolov
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2020-06-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030431770

This book has resulted from the activities of IFAC TC 5.2 “Manufacturing Modelling for Management and Control”. The book offers an introduction and advanced techniques of scheduling applications to cloud manufacturing and Industry 4.0 systems for larger audience. This book uncovers fundamental principles and recent developments in the theory and application of scheduling methodology to cloud manufacturing and Industry 4.0. The purpose of this book is to present recent developments in scheduling in cloud manufacturing and Industry 4.0 and to systemize these developments in new taxonomies and methodological principles to shape this new research domain. This book addresses the needs of both researchers and practitioners to uncover the challenges and opportunities of scheduling techniques’ applications to cloud manufacturing and Industry 4.0. For the first time, it comprehensively conceptualizes scheduling in cloud manufacturing and Industry 4.0 systems as a new research domain. The chapters of the book are written by the leading international experts and utilize methods of operations research, industrial engineering and computer science. Such a multi-disciplinary combination is unique and comprehensively deciphers major problem taxonomies, methodologies, and applications to scheduling in cloud manufacturing and Industry 4.0.

Smart Delivery Systems

Smart Delivery Systems
Author: Jakub Nalepa
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2019-11-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0128157151

Smart Delivery Systems: Solving Complex Vehicle Routing Problems examines both exact and approximate methods for delivering optimal solutions to rich vehicle routing problems, showing both the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. It shows how to apply machine learning and advanced data analysis techniques to improve routing systems, familiarizing readers with the concepts and technologies used in successfully implemented delivery systems. The book explains both the latest theoretical and practical advances in intelligent delivery and scheduling systems and presents practical applications for designing new algorithms for real-life scenarios.

Heuristic Scheduling Systems

Heuristic Scheduling Systems
Author: Thomas E. Morton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 718
Release: 1993-09-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780471578192

Reflects exact and heuristic methods of scheduling techniques suitable for creating customized sequencing and scheduling systems for flexible manufacturing, project management, group and cellular manufacturing operations. Summarizes complex computational studies demonstrating how they work in practice. Contains new theories and techniques developed by the author. Includes a software disk to reinforce and practice the methods described.

Planning and Scheduling Optimization

Planning and Scheduling Optimization
Author: Farouk Yalaoui
Publisher: Mdpi AG
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2021-11-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9783036523378

Although planning and scheduling optimization have been explored in the literature for many years now, it still remains a hot topic in the current scientific research. The changing market trends, globalization, technical and technological progress, and sustainability considerations make it necessary to deal with new optimization challenges in modern manufacturing, engineering, and healthcare systems. This book provides an overview of the recent advances in different areas connected with operations research models and other applications of intelligent computing techniques used for planning and scheduling optimization. The wide range of theoretical and practical research findings reported in this book confirms that the planning and scheduling problem is a complex issue that is present in different industrial sectors and organizations and opens promising and dynamic perspectives of research and development.

Intelligent Decision-making Support Systems

Intelligent Decision-making Support Systems
Author: Jatinder N.D. Gupta
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2007-03-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1846282314

This book will be bought by researchers and graduates students in Artificial Intelligence and management as well as practising managers and consultants interested in the application of IT and information systems in real business environment.

Artificial Intelligence in Reactive Scheduling

Artificial Intelligence in Reactive Scheduling
Author: R. Kerr
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1995-07-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0412729008

This volume encompasses state-of-the-art developments in AI-based reactive scheduling for real-time operation management in manufacturing shop floors. It is a collection of papers from the Second International Workshop of the IFIP Working Group 5.7 which brought together researchers from management information systems and knowledge engineering to expand the focus on applying new knowledge-based techniques.

Expert Systems

Expert Systems
Author: Cornelius T. Leondes
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 2125
Release: 2001-09-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0080531458

This six-volume set presents cutting-edge advances and applications of expert systems. Because expert systems combine the expertise of engineers, computer scientists, and computer programmers, each group will benefit from buying this important reference work. An "expert system" is a knowledge-based computer system that emulates the decision-making ability of a human expert. The primary role of the expert system is to perform appropriate functions under the close supervision of the human, whose work is supported by that expert system. In the reverse, this same expert system can monitor and double check the human in the performance of a task. Human-computer interaction in our highly complex world requires the development of a wide array of expert systems. Expert systems techniques and applications are presented for a diverse array of topics including Experimental design and decision support The integration of machine learning with knowledge acquisition for the design of expert systems Process planning in design and manufacturing systems and process control applications Knowledge discovery in large-scale knowledge bases Robotic systems Geograhphic information systems Image analysis, recognition and interpretation Cellular automata methods for pattern recognition Real-time fault tolerant control systems CAD-based vision systems in pattern matching processes Financial systems Agricultural applications Medical diagnosis