A common way of dynamically scheduling jobs in a manufacturing system is by implementing dispatching rules. The issues with this method are that the performance of these rules depends on the state the system is in at each moment and also that no “ideal” single rule exists for all the possible states that the system may be in. Therefore, it would be interesting to use the most appropriate dispat...

This paper focuses on the production scheduling in MEMS (microelectromechanical system) manufacturing. The whole MEMS production process can be organized as three sub-processes, that is, the front-end process, the wafer cap process and the back-end process. As the total processing time of the frontend process is significantly longer that that of the wafer cap process, the coordination between t...

The dynamic nature and growing size of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems demands quick methods for effective task allocation, routing and positioning of UAVs in reaction to and in anticipation of arriving targets. The importance of targets, along with the timeliness of completing their tasks determines how effective a system is performing. Through simulation, this paper examines a system wi...

Purpose: To determine resource rational allocation in the management of technique that specializes intra-terminal moving, to develop dispatching method for container flow. Methods: The work applies materials from open sources. Systematic approach is applied designing system terminal technique. Results: Method flow at has been developed, features combining conversion processes on basis prioritiz...

In this paper, two methods named distance and triangle methods are extended to evaluate the quality of approximation of the Pareto set from solving bi-objective problems. In order to use evaluation methods, a bi-objective problem is needed to define. It is considered the problem of scheduling jobs in a hybrid flow shop environment with sequence-dependent setup times and the objectives of minimi...

In the highly competitive market, cooperative multi-agent transaction and negotiation mechanism have become an important research topic. This paper uses multi-agent technology to construct a multi-section flexible manufacturing system (FMS) model, and utilizes simulation to build a manufacturing environment based on JADE framework for multi-agent to combine with dispatching rules, such as short...

We address a scheduling problem in the context of military aircraft maintenance where the goal is to meet the aircraft requirements for a number of missions in the presence of breakdowns. The assignment of aircraft to a mission must consider the requirements for the mission, the probability of aircraft failure, and capacity of the repair shop that maintains the aircraft. Therefore, a solution b...

A common way of dynamically scheduling jobs in a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is by means of dispatching rules. The problem of this method is that the performance of these rules depends on the state the system is in at each moment, and no single rule exists that is better than the rest in all the possible states that the system may be in. It would therefore be interesting to use the most...

In many applications, vehicular scheduling involves more complex criteria than that of travel time minimization. With regard to the actual status and operational environment of Public Traffic Vehicles (PTV), the optimal dispatching methods of PTV are dealt with by intelligent characteristics of Genetic Algorithm (GA). With one-point or two-point crossover of GA, various dispatching methods in t...

In the freight car dispatching problem empty freight cars have to be assigned to known demands respecting a given time horizon and certain constraints. The goal is to minimize the resulting transportation costs. One of the constraints is that customers can specify the type of cars they want. It is possible, however, that cars of certain types can be substituted by other cars, either in a 1-to-1...