• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.203-208
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• 2011

Job shop scheduling is well-known as one of the hardest combinatorial optimization problems and has been demonstrated to be NP-hard problem. In the past decades, several researchers have devoted their effort to develop evolutionary algorithms such as Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for job shop scheduling problem. Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm is a more recent evolutionary algorithm which has been widely applied and shown its strength in many application areas. However, the applications of DE on scheduling problems are still limited. This paper proposes a one-stage differential evolution algorithm (1ST-DE) for job shop scheduling problem. The proposed algorithm employs random key representation and permutation of m-job repetition to generate active schedules. The performance of proposed method is evaluated on a set of benchmark problems and compared with results from an existing PSO algorithm. The numerical results demonstrated that the proposed algorithm is able to provide good solutions especially for the large size problems with relatively fast computing time.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.235-240
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• 2013

Cloud systems are popular computing environment because they can provide easy access to computing resources for users as well as efficient use of resources for companies. The resources of cloud computing are heterogeneous and jobs have various characteristics. One such issue is effective job scheduling. Scheduling in the cloud system may be defined as a multiple criteria decision model. To address this issue, this paper proposes a priority-based two-step job scheduling algorithm. On the first level, jobs are classified based on preference. Resources are dedicated to a job if a deadline failure would cause severe results or critical business losses. In case of only minor discomfort or slight functional impairment, the job is scheduled using a best effort approach. On the second level, jobs are allocated to adequate resources through their priorities that are calculated by the analytic hierarchic process model. We then analyze the proposed algorithm and make a scheduling example to confirm its efficiency.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.41-49
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• 2002

In the study, for the practical approaches of job shop scheduling, we propose the new dispatching rules of job shop scheduling in order to complement the practical applications in the existing researches. The assumed situation for the practical approaches considers the following; relaxation of assumption for capacity constraint by machine flexibility, the addition of the common use of jig and fixture, unbalanced machine workloads and duedate tightness, and produces fast rescheduling that reflects unexpected situations. The performance of the new dispatching rules is compared and analyzed with the existing methods through the computer experiments in the assumed conditions. The results can be useful to improving a field application of the job shop scheduling.

• Proceedings of the Society of Korea Industrial and System Engineering Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.91-98
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• 2002

In the study, we propose, for the practical approaches of job shop scheduling, the new dispatching rules of Job shop scheduling in order to complement the practical applications in the existing researches. The performance of the new dispatching rules is compared and analyzed with the existing methods through the computer experiments in the assumed conditions. The results can be useful to improving a field application of the job shop scheduling.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.85-88
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• 2003

In case that any jobs in a Job Shop can be scheduled on more than one machine and may have flexible operation sequences, with considering such case it is very difficult and complex to make the optimal process plans and scheduling. But they should be considered for an integrated model to perform more effective process planning and scheduling in this job shop problem. In this paper, we propose GA-based scheduling method to integrate effectively the problem of alternative machines, alternative operation sequences and scheduling. The performance of proposed GA is evaluated through comparing integrated scheduling with not integrated scheduling in molding company with alternative machines and operation sequences. Also, we use benchmark problems to evaluate performance. The scheduling method in this research will apply usefully to real world scheduling problems.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1993.10a
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• pp.1095-1098
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• 1993

This paper presents linear programming neural networks for job-shop scheduling. The starting times of tasks and constraints are formulated as the linear programming problem. A modified Hopfield neural network is proposed for solving job-shop scheduling.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.34 no.7
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• pp.304-318
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• 2007

Grid computing is a service that share geographically distributed computing resources through high speed network. In this paper, we propose hybrid scheduling scheme which considers not only meta-scheduling scheme to distribute the job between the nodes of grid computing system but also the job scheduling to distribute the job within the local nodes. According to the number of processors needed and expected execution time, the job with high priority is allocated to job queue while the one with low priority and remote job are allocated to backfill queue. We evaluate the proposing scheme through the various experiments and the results show that the utilization of grid computing system increases and the job slowdown decreases.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.83-87
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• 1980

The distributive processing job in a hierarchical computer network, which supervises and controls the complex relations between the variables periodically for raising the fault folerance, can be defined its periodicity and its execution time. All the job may be composed of the subsets in relation of Tree structure. For a processor job set this paper finds out a job scheduling algorithm that has the less loose time between period than that of FCFS.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.69-79
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• 2003

In order to solve scheduling, many techniques including optimization and heuristics methods have been proposed. However, these conventional approaches are usually inadequate to obtain a satisfactory solution because of a NP-Complete which requires extensive computation effort. The aim of this paper is to develop an expert system for job shop scheduling using an AI technique. Through this system, the user can choose one of several performances. If one performance is chosen, then the system solves a scheduling in order to satisfy that performance. Then, this system decides urgent job. This system can utilize production resources efficiently and minimize work-in-process inventories and tardy jobs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.944-948
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• 2002

In industrial production setting scheduling problems of detalied day-to-day operations are often ordeals to production practitioners. For those who have scheduling experience with the Gantt Chart, the job oriented heuristic scheduling has illustrated its merits in solving practically large stale scheduling problems. It schedules all operations of a job within a finite capacity before considering the next job. This paper introduces a new LSB (load smoothing backward) scheduling algorithm for the job oriented heuristic scheduling. Through the computer simulation in a hypothetical setting, this paper provides a comparison of LSB scheduling with existing algorithms and a guideline for selecting the suitable algorithm for certain industrial setting.