ÐFault-tolerant real-time systems are typically based on active replication where replicated entities are required to deliver their outputs in an identical order within a given time interval. Distributed scheduling of replicated tasks, however, violates this requirement if on-line scheduling, preemptive scheduling, or scheduling of dissimilar replicated task sets is employed. This problem of in...

One of the most significant optimization issues facing a manufacturing company is flexible flow shop scheduling problem (FFSS). However, FFSS with uncertainty and energy-related elements has received little investigation. Additionally, in order to reduce overall waiting times earliness/tardiness issues, topic shared due dates researched. Using transmission line loadings bus voltage magnitude va...

This paper presents an investigation of scheduling procedures to seek the minimum of a positively weighted convex sum of makespan and the number of tardy jobs in a static flexible flow shop scheduling environment. The flexible flow shop problem is a scheduling of jobs in a flow shop environment consisting of series of production stages, some of which may have only one machine, but at least one ...

This study considers scheduling in Hybrid flow shop environment with unrelated parallel machines for minimizing mean of job's tardiness and mean of job's completion times. This problem does not study in the literature, so far. Flexible flow shop environment is applicable in various industries such as wire and spring manufacturing, electronic industries and production lines. After modeling the p...

The recent manufacturing environment is characterized as having diverse products due to mass customization, short production lead-time, and unstable customer demand. Today, the need for flexibility, quick responsiveness, and robustness to system uncertainties in production scheduling decisions has increased significantly. In traditional job shops, tooling is usually assumed as a fixed resource....

Reward-based scheduling has been investigated for flexible applications in which an approximate but timely result is acceptable. Meanwhile, significant research efforts have been made on voltage scheduling which exploits the tradeoff between the processor speed and the energy consumption. In this paper, we address the combined scheduling problem of maximizing the total reward of hard real-time ...