Time/cost trade-offs in machine scheduling with controllable processing times

buir.advisorAktürk, M. Selim
dc.contributor.authorGürel, Sinan
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-08T18:04:02Z
dc.date.available2016-01-08T18:04:02Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.departmentDepartment of Industrial Engineeringen_US
dc.descriptionAnkara : The Department of Industrial Engineering and the Institute of Engineering and Science of Bilkent University, 2008.en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Ph.D.) -- Bilkent University, 2008.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references leaves 166-175en_US
dc.description.abstractProcessing time controllability is a critical aspect in scheduling decisions since most of the scheduling practice in industry allows controlling processing times. A very well known example is the computer numerically controlled (CNC) machines in flexible manufacturing systems. Selected processing times for a given set of jobs determine the manufacturing cost of the jobs and strongly affect their scheduling performance. Hence, when making processing time and scheduling decisions at the same time, one must consider both the manufacturing cost and the scheduling performance objectives. In this thesis, we have studied such bicriteria scheduling problems in various scheduling environments including single, parallel and non-identical parallel machine environments. We have included some regular scheduling performance measures such as total weighted completion time and makespan. We have considered the convex manufacturing cost function of CNC turning operation. We have provided alternative methods to find efficient solutions in each problem. We have particularly focused on the single objective problems to get efficient solutions, called the -constraint approach. We have provided efficient formulations for the problems and shown useful properties which led us to develop fast heuristics to generate set of efficient solutions. In this thesis, taking another point of view, we have also studied a conic quadratic reformulation of a machine-job assignment problem with controllable processing times. We have considered a convex compression cost function for each job and solved a profit maximization problem. The convexity of cost functions is a major source of difficulty in finding optimal integer solutions in this problem, but our strengthened conic reformulation has eliminated this difficulty. Our reformulation approach is sufficiently general so that it can also be applied to other mixed 0-1 optimization problems with separable convex cost functions.Our computational results demonstrate that the proposed conic reformulation is very effective for solving the machine-job assignment problem with controllable processing times to optimality. Finally, in this thesis, we have considered rescheduling with controllable processing times. In particular, we show that in contrast to fixed processing times, if we have the flexibility to control the processing times of the jobs, we can generate alternative reactive schedules in response to a disruption such as machine breakdown. We consider a non-identical parallel machining environment where processing times of the jobs are compressible at a certain cost which is a convex function of the compression on the processing time. When rescheduling, it is critical to catch up the initial schedule as soon as possible by reassigning the jobs to the machines and changing their processing times. On the other hand, one must keep the total cost of the jobs at minimum. We present alternative match-up scheduling problems dealing with this trade-off. We use the strong conic reformulation approach in solving these problems. We further provide fast heuristic algorithms.en_US
dc.description.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityGürel, Sinanen_US
dc.format.extentxvii, 178 leaves, tablesen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/14658
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherBilkent Universityen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectSchedulingen_US
dc.subjectMatch-up timesen_US
dc.subjectReschedulingen_US
dc.subjectconic integer programmingen_US
dc.subjectSecond-order cone programmingen_US
dc.subjectConvex cost functionsen_US
dc.subjectBicriteria optimization,en_US
dc.subjectManufacturing costen_US
dc.subjectControllable processing timesen_US
dc.subject.lccTS157.5 .G874 2008en_US
dc.subject.lcshScheduling (Management)--Mathematical models.en_US
dc.subject.lcshProduction scheduling.en_US
dc.titleTime/cost trade-offs in machine scheduling with controllable processing timesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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