Constraint Propagation in Flexible Manufacturing /

This book provides a thorough analysis of scheduling problems that arise in a flexible manufacturing environment with scarce resource supply. Generalizations of the famous job shop scheduling problem are discussed. As a basic and common technique for solving these problems constraint propagation is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huy, Toàn Phan
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2000.
Series:Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems ; 492.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • General Solution Methods
  • The Disjunctive Scheduling Problem
  • Constraint Propagation and the DSP
  • A Branch-and-Bound Algorithm
  • A Decomposition Based Heuristic
  • A Local Search Based Heuristic
  • Some Concluding Remarks.