Using grid computing to solve hard planning and scheduling problems

Michael C. Ferris, Christos T. Maravelias, Arul Sundaramoorthy

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Abstract

Production planning and scheduling problems routinely arise in process industries. In spite of extensive research work to develop efficient scheduling methods, existing approaches are inefficient in solving industrial-scale problems in reasonable time. In this paper we develop a dynamic decomposition scheme that exploits the structure of the problem and facilitates grid computing. We consider the problem of simultaneous batching and scheduling of multi-stage batch processes. The proposed method can be used to solve hard problems on a grid computer to optimality in reasonable time.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication18th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering
EditorsBertrand Braunschweig, Xavier Joulia
Pages617-622
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameComputer Aided Chemical Engineering
Volume25
ISSN (Print)1570-7946

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Chemical Engineering(all)
  • Computer Science Applications

Keywords

  • decomposition algorithm
  • grid computing
  • mixed-integer programming

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