An Evaluation of Heuristic Scheduling Rules by Using a Zero-One Linear Programming Approach.

Abstract

This study attempted to find some heuristic scheduling rules that would consistently generate good schedules in military aircraft maintenance environments. Heuristic rules considered were those commonly used in the military aircraft field or frequently mentioned in scheduling literature. There was no attempt to study heuristic rules exhaustively. To test heuristic rules, ten aircraft maintenance 'scenarios' were created, based on data collected from the 17th Bombardment Wing (SAC). Constraints imposed in these scenarios were: limited resources, precedence relations between jobs; project and job due dates; and concurrent and nonconcurrent job performance requirements. Each maintenance scenario was modeled, using a zero-one linear programming formulation developed by Alan B. Pritsker, et al. and published in a Rand report. By use of an existing computer code to solve this formulation, the optimum solution of each scenario was found.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA006348

Entities

People

  • Doan Minh

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Maintenance
  • Aircrafts
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Environment
  • Linear Programming
  • Literature
  • Maintenance
  • Military Aircraft
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.