Group scheduling is significant for efficient and cost effective production system. However, there exist setup times between the groups, which require to decrease it by sequencing groups in an efficient way. Current research is focused on a sequence dependent group scheduling problem with an aim to minimize the makespan in addition to minimize the total weighted tardiness simultaneously. In mos...

Scheduling tasks on different resources spread over a grid computing system is an NP complete problem. Assorted researchers are developing adaptation scheduling algorithms for getting optimality. Hence they have proved a good result for tasks scheduling about resources selection. In this review, we study the Group-based Parallel Multi-scheduler (GPMS). It is focused on effectively utilizing the...

Based on cellular automaton and multi-agent model, we propose a novel hybrid model for distributed simulation of train-group in the railway traffic. An improved cellular automaton model is designed for simulating the underlying structure of the railroad and a multi-agent model is used for dynamic scheduling of the train-group. The combination of both models answers for the distributed simulatio...

preventive maintenance scheduling is to perform a series of tasks that prevents or minimizes production breakdowns and improves the reliability. mathematical models have been developed to solve the preventive maintenance scheduling problem. there are several limitations in the prior work in this area of research. craft combinations are assumed to be given. the craft combination problem concerns...

Uniprocessor system schedulers hide the high latency of a page fault, by performing a context switch from the process or thread experiencing the fault to another process ready to run. Gang scheduling attempts to schedule all the processes in a process group at the same time. Processes in a process group do not experience page faults at precisely the same time, and process group context switchin...

Specialization of physicians in recent years, coupled with the rapidly growing cost of each specialist's time, has made scheduling an increasingly important problem for group practices and other centralized cooperating groups of physicians. Inefficient or improper scheduling leads to the waste of clinic resources or increased costs to the patient. Current group practice and clinic scheduling sy...

This paper considers a group scheduling problem for manufacturing cells, in which parts may visit different cells. By addressing intra-cell scheduling, the sequence of parts within manufacturing cells is determined; however, in inter-cell scheduling the sequence of cells is obtained. We present a new mathematical model for a multi-criteria group scheduling problem in a cellular manufacture syst...

In this paper, a genetic algorithm based approach for job scheduling in distributed system considering dynamic load balancing is discussed. The underlying distributed system has hierarchical structure and job scheduling is done in two levels: group level and node level. Scheduling in distributed system involves deciding not only when to execute a process, but also where to execute it. A proper ...