Flexible job shops are characterized by the existence of alternative –not necessarily identicalmachines, which permits parts to have different alternative routes in the shop. In a dynamic scheduling situation in which jobs continuously arrive over time, part routing rules are needed to deal with such routing flexibility as much as sequencing rules which define the order by which parts are admit...

This special issue renders nine original technical contributions which represent the latest trends in the emerging interdisciplinary area of data-intensive modelling and simulation. Ranging from performance-oriented and energy-aware infrastructure support through parallel programming frameworks and scheduling heuristics to high-end applicative environments, these papers have been especially com...

The scheduling of tasks for applications with dynamic behavior traditionally rely on externally observable metrics such as the number of active processes. This paper presents a new scheduling strategy based on the observation that it may be possible to capture the near-term resource requirements of active tasks by expressions involving task parameters. Run-time evaluation of these expressions y...

This paper develops Order Acceptance for an Integrated Production-Distribution Problem in which Batch Delivery is implemented. The aim of this problem is to coordinate: (1) rejecting some of the orders (2) production scheduling of the accepted orders and (3) batch delivery to maximize Total Net Profit. A Mixed Integer Programming is proposed for the problem. In addition, a hybrid meta-heuristic...

The scheduling of tasks for applications with dynamic behavior traditionally rely on externally observable met-rics such as the number of active processes. This paper presents a new scheduling strategy based on the observation that it may be possible to capture the near-term resource requirements of active tasks by expressions involving task parameters. Run-time evaluation of these expressions ...

Flexible manufacturing system (FMS) readily addresses the dynamic needs of the customers in terms of variety and quality. At present, there is a need to produce a wide range of quality products in limited time span. On-time delivery of customers’ orders is critical in make-to-order (MTO) manufacturing systems. The completion time of the orders depends on several factors including arrival rate, ...

Flexible flow shop scheduling problem (also called blended flow shop scheduling problem) is a sort of complex Job Shop Scheduling problem. For the Flexible Flow Shop scheduling problem, only in very special cases, there are polynomial optimal algorithms. In most of the other cases, the problems are NP-Hard. It is a simplification of the original problem to solve Flexible flow shop scheduling wi...

tendency to optimization in last decades has resulted in creating multi-product manufacturing systems. production planning in such systems is difficult, because optimal production volume that is calculated must be consistent with limitation of production system. hence, integration has been proposed to decide about these problems concurrently. main problem in integration is how we can relate pro...