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Scheduling for modern manufacturing, logistics and supply chains

Objetivo

The objective of this research network is to bring together scientific activities in the field of deterministic scheduling of the teams which have experience of joint research on scheduling models and methods, in particular in the framework of INTAS projects (INTAS 93-257, INTAS 93-257-Ext, INTAS 96-0820) carried out in the years 1995-2000. The partnership of these teams will promote synergy on developing scheduling research to satisfy practical needs of modern manufacturing, resource planning, and logistics and supply chains. The regular exchange of information within this network will be maintained by e-mail, joint meetings both in the framework of this proposal and at the international conferences and symposia on Operations Research, Combinatorial Optimisation, Mathematical Programming, Project Management and Scheduling, Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems, EURO Meetings, and Dagstuhl seminars on Scheduling in Computers and Manufacturing Systems.

The proposed research network includes experts in classical scheduling, combinatorial optimisation, resource planning, modern manufacturing, batch processing, supply chains and logistics. Most of the teams have gained collaboration experience and obtained joint research results. In the proposed network, the interdisciplinary methodologies based on advanced scheduling and combinatorial optimisation techniques will be developed to provide efficient and effective solutions for practical scheduling problems.

The ultimate objective is to tackle general scheduling models that appear in modern manufacturing, logistics and supply chains. Since this objective is difficult to achieve due to the large variety of processing environments, material, financial and information flows, the Network plan is to start with simpler but still realistic models specific for (i) scheduling (hybrid) manufacturing systems which include parallel as well as multi-stage facilities (examples are pharmaceutical, food and other industries that produce perishable products, as well as robotic cells), (ii) coordination of scheduling and transportation decisions, (iii) combination of scheduling and re-inverse logistics, (iv) scheduling in supply chains, including batch scheduling, assembly and disassembly scheduling, (v) scheduling and due-date bargaining in producer-customer supply chains. The research programme includes the analysis of scheduling problems with precedence constraints, adjastable release dates and deadlines, controllable processing times and assignable due dates. Each model will be investigated to clearly establish its scheduling aspects. The properties of optimal solutions will be described to be used by the decision makers. Computational complexity of the related problems will be established either by proving their intractability or by deriving efficient solution procedures for them. For NP-problems, efficient approximation procedures and heuristics will be developed.

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University Joseph Fourier
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621 Avenue Centrale, Domaine Universitaire
38400, 38041 Grenobl Saint-Martin d'Hères
Francia

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