Partial Flexibility in Routeing and Scheduling

Order Selection and Scheduling with Leadtime Flexibility

Pricing and scheduling decisions with leadtime flexibility

This paper studies a problem faced by a manufacturer who has the ability to set prices to influence demand, reject orders, and set leadtimes or due-dates for accepted orders. We present decision models that integrate pricing and production decisions for the cases where the manufacturer charges the same price or different prices to different customers. Through numerical analyses, we present insi...

Efficient Network Routeing

We believe that the control currently provided by routeing in the Internet is becoming demonstrably insufficient for the demands of network operators and users. Current routeing protocols provide little or no support for automation of network management, leaving such things as construction and implementation of SLAs and the pricing of resources entirely to the network manager. The research prop...

Towards Flexibility and Scalability in Parallel Job Scheduling

Gang scheduling has been widely used as a practical solution to the dynamic parallel job scheduling problem. Parallel tasks of a job are scheduled for simultaneous execution on a partition of a parallel computer. Gang Scheduling has many advantages, such as responsiveness, efficient sharing of resources and ease of programming. However, there are two major problems associated with gang scheduli...

Scheduling in robotic cells: process flexibility and cell layout

The focus of this study is the identical parts robotic cell scheduling problem with m machines under the assumption of process and operational flexibility. A direct consequence of this assumption is a new robot move cycle that has been overlooked in the existing literature. We prove that this new cycle dominates all classical robot move cycles considered in the literature for m1⁄4 2. We also pr...