• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.107-112
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• 2006

This study presents the new dispatching rules for improving performance measures of job shop scheduling related to completion time and due dates. The proposed dispatching rule considers information, which includes the comparison value of job workload, work remaining, operation time, and operation due dates. Through computer experiments, the performance of the new dispatching rules is compared and analyzed with the existing rules. The results provide a guidance for the researchers to develop new dispatching rules and for practitioners to choose rules of job shop scheduling.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.28 no.A
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• pp.51-61
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• 2008

In these days, domestic manufacturers are faced with managerial difficulties such as the increasing competition in their industry and the increasing power of customers. In this situation, they have to satisfy their customers with high quality of their products and meeting due date of their orders. Production of the order within due date is an important factor for improving enterprise competitiveness. The causes of occurrence of tardiness may be wrong product scheduling, unexpected events in field and so on, a way to minimize tardiness is use of alternative machines, overwork, outsourcing and etc.. In this study, we deal with a scheduling problem that can minimize tardiness using alternative machines. This paper provides a mathematical program and a heuristic method for job shop scheduling for minimizing tardiness with alternative machines. And a proposed heuristic method is verified comparing with optimal solution obtained by ILOG CPLEX.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.306-309
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• 1996

The job shop scheduling problem has been a major target for many researchers. And, most of the past studies did not consider setup time. In many cases of real manufacturing environment, however, there exists a setup time for each operations. The setup can be divide into two parts, one can be done after job arrival. The setup time based on the latter can be summed together with processing time, but that based on the former can not be. We propose an approximation method based on shifting bottleneck procedure for solving the job shop scheduling problem with sequence independent setup time. It schedules the machines one by one, taking a bottleneck machine among the machines not yet scheduled. Every time after a new machine is scheduled, all schedules previously established are updated. Both the bottlenck search and the schedule updating procedure are based on solving a single machine scheduling problem with ready time, setup time and delivery time iteratively.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.141-154
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• 2004

The objective of this paper is to develop the efficient heuristic method for solving the minimum makespan problem of the job shop scheduling. The proposed heuristic method is based on a constraint satisfaction problem technique and a improved randomizing search algorithm. In this paper, ILOG programming libraries are used to embody the job shop model, and a constraint satisfaction problem technique is developed for this model to generate the initial solution. Then, a improved randomizing search algorithm is employed to overcome the increased search time of constrained satisfaction problem technique on the increased problem size and to find a improved solution. Computational experiments on well known MT and LA problem instances show that this approach yields better results than the other procedures.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.55-65
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• 2005

In recent manufacturing systems, most jobs may have several process plans, such as alternative sequence of operations, alternative machine etc. A few researches have addressed the necessity for the integration of process planning and scheduling function for efficient use of manufacturing resources. But the integration problem is very difficult and complex. Many prior researches considered them separately or sequentially. It introduces overlapping or partial duplications in solution efforts. In this paper, Integration problem of jobs with multiple process plans in a job shop environment Is addressed. In order to achieve an efficient integration between process planning and scheduling by taking advantage of the flexibility that alternative process plans offer, we designed GA(Genetic Algorithm)-based scheduling method. The performance of proposed GA is evaluated through comparing integrated scheduling with separated scheduling in real world company with alternative machines and sequences of operations. Also, a couple of benchmark problems are used to evaluate performance. The integrated scheduling method in this research can be effectively epplied to the real case.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.209-213
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• 1998

Job-Shop Scheduling 문제는 전형적인 NP-hard 문제로서 효율적인 발견적 기법을 필요로 한다. 본 연구에서는 이 문제에 대한 유전알고리즘들의 성능을 비교 분석한다. 유전 알고리즘의 주요 구성 요소들로는 크게 선별, 교차, 돌연변이 등이 존재하는데, 특히 선별은 적자 생존의 자연 법칙에 기초하여, 환경에 대한 적응도에 의해 현 세대의 모집단으로부터 다음 세대에 생존할 개체를 선택하는 과정으로 해의 산출에 중요한 역할을 하는 부분이다. 기존의 많은 연구들이 유전 연산자인 교차, 돌연변이 방법들에 대한 성능 비교에 초점을 맞추었는데, 본 연구에서는 선별 과정에 초점을 맞추어 기존의 알려진 여러 선별 방법 들을Job-Shop Scheduling 문제에의 적용을 통해 비교 분석하고 새로운 선별 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.67-95
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• 1998

This research addresses flow time prediction in the dynamic unbalanced job shop scheduling environment. The specific purpose of the research is to develop the job flow time prediction model in the dynamic unbalance djob shop. Such factors as job characteristics, job shop status, characteristics of the shop workload, shop dispatching rules, shop structure, etc, are considered in the prediction model. The regression prediction approach is analyzed within a dynamic, make-to-order job shop simulation model. Mean Absolute Lateness (MAL) and Mean Relative Error (MRE) are used to compare and evaluate alternative regression models devloped in this research.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.84-92
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• 2008

Scheduling is one of the most important issues in the planning and operation of production systems. This paper investigates a general job shop scheduling problem with reentrant work flows and sequence dependent setup times. The disjunctive graph representation is used to capture the interactions between machines in job shop. Based on this representation, four two-phase heuristic procedures are proposed to obtain near optimal solutions for this problem. The obtained solutions in the first phase are substantially improved by reversing the direction of some critical disjunctive arcs of the graph in the second phase. A comparative study is conducted to examine the performance of these proposed algorithms.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.7-14
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• 2011

In solving the Job Shop Scheduling Problem, the best solution rarely is completely random; it follows one or more rules (heuristics). The Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Simulated Annealing, and Tabu search, which belong to the Evolutionary Computations Algorithms (ECs), are not efficient enough in solving this problem as they neglect all conventional heuristics and hence they need to be hybridized with different heuristics. In this paper a new algorithm titled "Shaking Optimization Algorithm" is proposed that follows the common methodology of the Evolutionary Computations while utilizing different heuristics during the evolution process of the solution. The results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the GA, PSO, SA, and TS algorithms, while being a good competitor to some other hybridized techniques in solving a selected number of benchmark Job Shop Scheduling problems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.609-612
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• 2000

Job-shop scheduling problem(JSSP) is one of the best-known machine scheduling problems and essentially an ordering problem. A new encoding scheme which always give a feasible schedule is presented, by which a schedule directly corresponds to an assigned-operation ordering string. It is initialized with G&T algorithm and improved using the developed genetic operator; APMX or BPMX crossover operator and mutation operator. and the problem of infeasibility in genetic generation is naturally overcome. Within the framework of the newly designed genetic algorithm, the NP-hard classical job-shop scheduling problem can be efficiently solved with high quality. Moreover the optimal solutions of the famous benchmarks, the Fisher and Thompson's 10${\times}$10 and 20${\times}$5 problems, are found.