An effective approach for job-shop scheduling with uncertain processing requirements

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 328-339

  Luh, Peter B ^a,b   Chen, Dong ^a,b   Thakur, Lakshman S ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Job shop scheduling; Lagrangian relaxation; Stochastic dynamic programming; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTION CONTROL; RANDOM PROCESSES; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

JOB-SHOP SCHEDULING; LAGRANGIAN RELAXATION; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 0032654876     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.760354     Document Type: Article

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