Branch-and-Bound and Heuristic Approaches to a Sequencing Problem with Team-Size Requirements,

Abstract

Most research in job shop scheduling has assumed that one machine is required for each operation. Some situations, however, require several machines of the same type. This is true, for example, in aircraft maintenance that requires teams of specialists (the 'machines') to fix a single malfunction. Because the study of the simplest scheduling problems, namely finite sequencing for a single machine, has provided valuable insights, the work described here was undertaken to examine the simplest type of static problem with variable team-size requirements.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0786708

Entities

People

  • Louis W. Miller

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Maintenance
  • Aircrafts
  • Engineering
  • Job Shop Scheduling
  • Maintenance
  • Malfunctions
  • Production Engineering
  • Production Management Methods
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Specialists

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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