This paper focuses on an interdisciplinary approach using Geoinformation Science and Technology, Operations Research and Forest Science to overcome the limitations of the traditional forest road planning process. A pilot study shows that combining Geoinformation Science and Technology and Operations Research supports forest road planning. The first research objective solved in the project is th...

Optimum utilization of limited resources in the production floor demands that the production manager makes decisions on the best allocation of limited resources. This study applied linear programming techniques to production planning problem in a feed mill producing company. Linear Programming model was formulated based on data obtained from the company operations’ diary. Data was processed wit...

This is the last part of a two-part survey of optimization models and solution algorithms for emergency response planning in electric distribution systems. The first part of the survey addresses reliability planning problems with fault considerations related to electric distribution operations. The aim of this second part is to provide a comprehensive survey of optimization models and solution ...

this paper presented a mixed integer programming for integrated scheduling and process planning. the presented process plan included some orders with precedence relations similar to multiple traveling salesman problem (mtsp), which was categorized as an np-hard problem. these types of problems are also called advanced planning because of simultaneously determining the appropriate sequence and m...

Effective control of large-scale enterprises requires a combination of long-range planning to identify appropriate strategies for meeting objectives and efficient scheduling of resources to ensure timely completion of tasks associated with those strategies. Given the highly dynamic operating environment of many enterprises, planning and scheduling must both be adaptive to unexpected events and ...

An important aspect of mission planning for NASA’s operation of the International Space Station is the allocation and management of space for supplies and equipment. The Stowage, Configuration Analysis, and Operations Planning teams collaborate to perform the bulk of that planning. A peer-to-peer automated planning architecture is proposed to support the three teams in a way that maps naturally...

This report describes work funded under the DARPA Planning and Scheduling Initiative that led to the development of SOCAP (System for Operations Crisis Action Planning). In particular, it describes lessons learned in applying SIPE2, the underlying AI planning technology within SOCAP, to the domain of military operations deliberate and crisis action planning. SOCAP was demonstrated at the U.S. C...

We consider the short-term production planning of multi-product continuous plants. In the literature this problem is generally modeled as a large-size monolithic mixed-integer linear or nonlinear program. In this paper we follow a decomposition approach which partitions the problem into an operations planning and an operations scheduling problem. The operations planning problem consists in assi...

In traditional approach, planning and scheduling are two separate and successive operations. The process planning phase is mostly about the physical aspect of planning, where a product range, production quantities, machines, tools, material and accessories are selected. The emphasis in the second, scheduling phase, is on the time aspect. The plan is the basis to determine the sequence of operat...

Planning a construction project through breaking the project down into smaller individual operations of construction processes relies on an accurate estimate of the operational productivity. A model (based on 212 real construction operations) which is capable of producing such estimates is utilised to experiment with operational performance, through varying the number of resources involved in t...