A distributed problem solving approach to job shop scheduling is described in this paper. The approach views the system as an Organisation. Agents are assigned di erent roles and ...
Advanced manufacturing control still remains an important topic in current research. Especially aspects of dynamics and of failures in the production process are insufficiently ta...
We present a scheme to guarantee that the execution of real-time tasks can tolerate transient and intermittent faults assuming any queue- based scheduling technique. The scheme is...
Flight disruptions due to events such as inclement weather or mechanical failure are an increasing occurrence in today's air travel. It is important to develop flight schedul...
This paper deals with large-scale crew scheduling problems arising at the Dutch railway operator, Netherlands Railways (NS). We discuss several methods to partition large instances...
Erwin J. W. Abbink, Joel Van't Wout, Dennis Huisma...