Consolidation and processing of the experts' knowledge in the correction of communication and social skills of students with autism spectrum disorder seem to be both an actual task, and a challenge. Being well-awa...
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Consolidation and processing of the experts' knowledge in the correction of communication and social skills of students with autism spectrum disorder seem to be both an actual task, and a challenge. Being well-aware of special needs of each and every student, psychologists and medics, as well as all the participants of education of ASD students, when making a decision about which information technology to use, apply their experience with exact ASD student. Expert evaluation technique enables support in such decision making, and its result can be used as input information to optimization task, solving which will allow taking into account different constraints.
In the scheduling literature, it is often assumed that jobs arrive either simultaneously or individually. However, this assumption is invalid in most practical situations because jobs usually arrive in batches, e.g., ...
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(纸本)9781424426294
In the scheduling literature, it is often assumed that jobs arrive either simultaneously or individually. However, this assumption is invalid in most practical situations because jobs usually arrive in batches, e.g., the final testing house in the manufacturing of semiconductor. The concept of batch arrivals has been mentioned in some studies, but it has not been explored from an operational viewpoint. This paper first addresses an identical parallel machine problem with batch arrivals to minimize the total completion time. Since the problem is NP-hard, a heuristic based on binary integer program Is proposed. Computational results show that the proposed heuristic can efficiently obtain good solutions with an average percentage error of 0.41.
The optimal or near-optimal schedules generated by traditional optimization or approximation methods for job shop scheduling problems (JSSP) contain valuable scheduling patterns about this kind of scheduling problems....
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The optimal or near-optimal schedules generated by traditional optimization or approximation methods for job shop scheduling problems (JSSP) contain valuable scheduling patterns about this kind of scheduling problems. These patterns could be used to improve the dispatching performance and provide insights into the corresponding scheduling problems. This paper uses timed Petri nets to describe the dispatching processes of the job shop scheduling scenarios. On this basis, a data mining based scheduling knowledge extraction framework is developed to mine the expected scheduling knowledge from the solutions generated by traditional optimization or approximation method for JSSP. Based on this, we show how to use the extracted knowledge as a new dispatching rule to generate complete schedules. A novel method is further developed to combine the extracted knowledge with traditional heuristics to construct new composite dispatching rules which could gain better performance. Besides, we propose a novel approach to utilize the extracted knowledge to improve a Petri net based branch and bound algorithm used in this paper. A series of experiments is carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposed methods. (C) 2015, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A statistical model for global optimization is constructed generalizing some properties of the Wiener process to the multidimensional case. A new approach, which is similar to the branch and bound approach, is propose...
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Demand response is seeing increased popularity worldwide and industrial loads are actively taking part in this trend. As a host of energy-intensive industrial processes, steel plants have both the motivation and poten...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9788894105124
Demand response is seeing increased popularity worldwide and industrial loads are actively taking part in this trend. As a host of energy-intensive industrial processes, steel plants have both the motivation and potential to provide demand response. However, the scheduling of steel plants is very complex and the involved computations are intense. In this paper, we focus on these difficulties and propose methods such as adding cuts and implementing an application-specific branch and bound algorithm to make the computations more tractable.
The study of the optimal expansion of existing water resources systems is of continuing importance because of the rising demand and limited supply of water in many areas of the world, particularly in the southwestern ...
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This article focuses on the crop planting problem under uncertainty environment based on uncertainty theory. Firstly, we consider that these crop profit coefficients are uncertain variables, and these labor factors ar...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9789811697357;9789811697340
This article focuses on the crop planting problem under uncertainty environment based on uncertainty theory. Firstly, we consider that these crop profit coefficients are uncertain variables, and these labor factors are random variables, and an uncertainty model for crop planting problem is proposed. And then, the uncertainty model is transformed into a certain model by expected values. Further, we show a useful branch and bound algorithm procedure to obtain optimal planting plan. Finally, this model and approach can be applied for any other optimal problems with uncertainty factors.
ABSTRACT: This paper describes a mathematical model, an algorithm and a computer program that were specially developed to study the problem of a water quality management system undergoing a rapidly increasing environm...
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A branch and bound method to minimize the width of the control memory of microprogrammed processors is given. Although it is exponential in the worst case, it appears much more effective than previous enumerative solu...
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When dealing with machine scheduling problems, the number of available machines is usually treated as the only constrained resource. However, in many practical cases, additional resources such as operators, part holde...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9787121074370
When dealing with machine scheduling problems, the number of available machines is usually treated as the only constrained resource. However, in many practical cases, additional resources such as operators, part holders, or tools, are also needed during the operation and the amounts of these resources are generally limited. Therefore, one needs to put resource constraints into 'consideration in order to form feasible job schedules. In this study, the branch and bound method is applied on unrelated parallel machine scheduling problems with constrained resources. Two algorithms are developed to obtain the optimal solutions much that weighted completion time is minimized. The first algorithm is job oriented. That is, the search tree is constructed according to the sequential assignment of jobs on machines. The second algorithm, on the other hand, is resource oriented A variety of numerical examples are designed with different sizes and resource strength. Numerical experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm. It is shown from our result that the resource-oriented branch and bound algorithm is more efficient in find the optimal solutions as the number of resource is significantly smaller than the number of jobs.
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