Simulation frameworks for Decision Support Systems (DSSs) at the whole-farm level have not adequately supported process level management and integration of complex farming systems. Development of the Great Plains Framework for Agricultural Resource Management (GPFARM) DSS for whole-farm management required a simulation package that could handle this complex system. Object-oriented (OO) techniqu...

Resources management ensures that a project is completed on time and at cost, and that its quality is as previously defined; nevertheless, resources are scarce and their use in the activities of the project leads to conflicts in the schedule. Resource leveling problems consider how to make the resource consumption as efficient as possible. This paper presents a new Adaptive Genetic Algorithm fo...

Given that the co-existence of multimedia applications will be a norm in the future wireless systems, their quality of service (QoS) requirements need to be guaranteed. This has imposed new challenges in the design of packet scheduling algorithms in these systems. To address those challenges, a new packet scheduling algorithm for real time (RT) traffic in downlink third generation partnership p...

OF THE DISSERTATION Out-of-order Parallel Discrete Event Simulation for Electronic System-Level Design By Weiwei Chen Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Irvine, 2013 Professor Rainer Doemer, Chair The large size and complexity of the modern embedded systems pose great challenges to design and validation. At the so called electronic system level...

This work proposes an agent-based simulation system to address challenges in resource constrained multi project scheduling for a technology intensive industrial product development programme. The system aims at helping users develop robust programme schedules by taking care of intraand interdependencies between projects, potential knock-on effect of unpredictable events, and resource constraint...

We present a detailed analysis of the patient and resource scheduling problem in rehabilitation hospitals. In practice, the predominantly therapeutical treatments and activities which are prescribed for the patients are typically scheduled manually. This leads to rigid and inefficient schedules which can have negative effects on the quality of care and the patients’ satisfaction. We outline the...

in this paper, we consider scheduling of project networks under minimization of total weighted resource tardiness penalty costs. in this problem, we assume constrained resources are renewable and limited to very costly machines and tools which are also used in other projects and are not accessible in all periods of time of a project. in other words, there is a dictated ready date as well as a d...