scholarly journals Some complexity and approximation results for coupled-tasks scheduling problem according to topology

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 781-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoit Darties ◽  
Rodolphe Giroudeau ◽  
Jean-Claude König ◽  
Gilles Simonin
Keyword(s):  
Scheduling Problem ◽  
Tasks Scheduling ◽  
Coupled Tasks

scholarly journals Cable tree wiring - benchmarking solvers on a real-world scheduling problem with a variety of precedence constraints

Constraints ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Koehler ◽  
Josef Bürgler ◽  
Urs Fontana ◽  
Etienne Fux ◽  
Florian Herzog ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Precedence Constraints ◽  
Traveling Salesman ◽  
Mixed Integer ◽  
Automated Manufacturing ◽  
Scheduling Problem ◽  
Tasks Scheduling ◽  
Optimization Modulo Theories ◽  
Coupled Tasks ◽  
Np Hardness

AbstractCable trees are used in industrial products to transmit energy and information between different product parts. To this date, they are mostly assembled by humans and only few automated manufacturing solutions exist using complex robotic machines. For these machines, the wiring plan has to be translated into a wiring sequence of cable plugging operations to be followed by the machine. In this paper, we study and formalize the problem of deriving the optimal wiring sequence for a given layout of a cable tree. We summarize our investigations to model this cable tree wiring problem (CTW). as a traveling salesman problem with atomic, soft atomic, and disjunctive precedence constraints as well as tour-dependent edge costs such that it can be solved by state-of-the-art constraint programming (CP), Optimization Modulo Theories (OMT), and mixed-integer programming (MIP). solvers. It is further shown, how the CTW problem can be viewed as a soft version of the coupled tasks scheduling problem. We discuss various modeling variants for the problem, prove its NP-hardness, and empirically compare CP, OMT, and MIP solvers on a benchmark set of 278 instances. The complete benchmark set with all models and instance data is available on github and was included in the MiniZinc challenge 2020.

scholarly journals Generalized swarm intelligence algorithms with domain-specific heuristics

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
P. Matrenin ◽  
V. Myasnichenko ◽  
N. Sdobnyakov ◽  
D. Sokolov ◽  
S. Fidanova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Swarm Intelligence ◽  
Minimum Distance ◽  
Heuristic Algorithms ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Scheduling Problem ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Hybrid Approaches ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Swarm Algorithms ◽  
Tasks Scheduling

<span lang="EN-US">In recent years, hybrid approaches on population-based algorithms are more often applied in industrial settings. In this paper, we present the approach of a combination of universal, problem-free Swarm Intelligence (SI) algorithms with simple deterministic domain-specific heuristic algorithms. The approach focuses on improving efficiency by sharing the advantages of domain-specific heuristic and swarm algorithms. A heuristic algorithm helps take into account the specifics of the problem and effectively translate the positions of agents (particle, ant, bee) into the problem's solution. And a Swarm algorithm provides an increase in the adaptability and efficiency of the approach due to stochastic and self-organized properties. We demonstrate this approach on two non-trivial optimization tasks: scheduling problem and finding the minimum distance between 3D isomers.</span>

scholarly journals An improved bat optimization algorithm to solve the tasks scheduling problem in open shop

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morteza Babazadeh Shareh ◽  
Shirin Hatami Bargh ◽  
Ali Asghar Rahmani Hosseinabadi ◽  
Adam Slowik
Keyword(s):  
Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Open Shop ◽  
Scheduling Problem ◽  
Tasks Scheduling

scholarly journals Smart DAG Tasks Scheduling between Trusted and Untrusted Entities Using the MCTS Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxia Cheng ◽  
Zhiwei Wu ◽  
Kui Liu ◽  
Qing Wu ◽  
Yu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Reinforcement Learning ◽  
Heterogeneous Computing ◽  
Heuristic Algorithms ◽  
Scheduling Algorithm ◽  
Optimal Schedule ◽  
Scheduling Problem ◽  
Scheduling Policies ◽  
Monte Carlo Tree Search ◽  
Reward Function ◽  
Tasks Scheduling

Task scheduling is critical for improving system performance in the distributed heterogeneous computing environment. The Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) tasks scheduling problem is NP-complete and it is hard to find an optimal schedule. Due to its key importance, the DAG tasks scheduling problem has been extensively studied in the literature. However, many previously proposed traditional heuristic algorithms are usually based on greedy methods and also lack the consideration of scheduling tasks between trusted and untrusted entities, which makes the problem more complicated, but there still exists a large optimization space to be explored. In this paper, we propose a trust-aware adaptive DAG tasks scheduling algorithm using the reinforcement learning and Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) methods. The scheduling problem is defined using the reinforcement learning model. Efficient scheduling state space, action space and reward function are designed to train the policy gradient-based REINFORCE agent. The MCTS method is proposed to determine actual scheduling policies when DAG tasks are simultaneously executed in trusted and untrusted entities. Leveraging the algorithm’s capability of exploring long term reward, the proposed algorithm could achieve good scheduling policies while guaranteeing trusted tasks scheduled within trusted entities. Experimental results showed the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm compared with the classic HEFT/CPOP algorithms.

A Game Theory Approach for Multiple Design Tasks Schedule

2010 ◽  
Vol 26-28 ◽  
pp. 163-166
Author(s):  
Guo Hai Zhang ◽  
Guang Hui Zhou ◽  
Xue Qun Su
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Game Theory ◽  
Solution Algorithm ◽  
Optimal Scheduling ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Scheduling Problem ◽  
Tasks Scheduling ◽  
Numerical Case Study

This paper presents a new kind of scheduling solution for multiple design tasks in networked developing environments. The main contributions of this study can be focused on three points: The first is to distinguish the concepts and contents of the task scheduling in the networked developing environments. The second is to construct a game-theory mathematical model to deal with this new multiple design tasks scheduling problem. In the presented mathematical model, the players, strategies and payoff are given separately. Therefore, obtaining the optimal scheduling results is determined by the Nash equilibrium (NE) point of this game. In order to find the NE point, a genetic algorithm (GA)-based solution algorithm to solve this mathematical model is proposed. Finally, a numerical case study is presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the methods.

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