Multi-machine energy-aware scheduling

The traditional set of manufacturing scheduling problems concern general and easy-to-measure economic objectives such as makespan and tardiness. The variable nature of energy costs over the course of the day remains mostly ignored by most previous research. This variability should not be considered...

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Autores principales: David Van Den Dooren, Thomas Sys, TúlioA.M. Toffolo, Tony Wauters, Greet Vanden Berghe
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:d0d0b60eb9e5463f965670457972cad32021-12-02T05:01:01ZMulti-machine energy-aware scheduling2192-440610.1007/s13675-016-0072-0https://doaj.org/article/d0d0b60eb9e5463f965670457972cad32017-03-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2192440621000824https://doaj.org/toc/2192-4406The traditional set of manufacturing scheduling problems concern general and easy-to-measure economic objectives such as makespan and tardiness. The variable nature of energy costs over the course of the day remains mostly ignored by most previous research. This variability should not be considered an added complexity, but rather an opportunity for businesses to minimise their energy bill. More effectively scheduling jobs across multiple machines may result in reduced costs despite fixed consumption levels. To this end, this paper proposes a scheduling approach capable of optimising this largely undefined and, consequently, currently unaddressed situation. The proposed multi-machine energy optimisation approach consists of constructive heuristics responsible for generating an initial solution and a late acceptance hill climbing algorithm responsible for improving this initial solution. The combined approach was applied to the scheduling instances of the ICON challenge on Forecasting and Scheduling [The challenge is organized as part of the EU FET-Open: Inductive Constraint Programming (ICON) project (O’Sullivan et al., ICON challenge on forecasting and scheduling. UCC, University College Cork, ICON, Cork. http://iconchallenge.insight-centre.org/challenge-energy, 2014)] whereupon it was proven superior to all other competing algorithms. This achievement highlights the potential of the proposed algorithm insofar as solving the multi-machine energy-aware optimisation problem (MEOP). The new benchmarks are available for further research.David Van Den DoorenThomas SysTúlioA.M. ToffoloTony WautersGreet Vanden BergheElsevierarticle90–08 Computational methods90B35 Scheduling theory, deterministic90C11 Mixed integer programming90C59 Approximation methods and heuristics68T20 Problem solving (heuristics, search strategies, etc.)Applied mathematics. Quantitative methodsT57-57.97Electronic computers. Computer scienceQA75.5-76.95ENEURO Journal on Computational Optimization, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 285-307 (2017)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic 90–08 Computational methods
90B35 Scheduling theory, deterministic
90C11 Mixed integer programming
90C59 Approximation methods and heuristics
68T20 Problem solving (heuristics, search strategies, etc.)
Applied mathematics. Quantitative methods
T57-57.97
Electronic computers. Computer science
QA75.5-76.95
spellingShingle 90–08 Computational methods
90B35 Scheduling theory, deterministic
90C11 Mixed integer programming
90C59 Approximation methods and heuristics
68T20 Problem solving (heuristics, search strategies, etc.)
Applied mathematics. Quantitative methods
T57-57.97
Electronic computers. Computer science
QA75.5-76.95
David Van Den Dooren
Thomas Sys
TúlioA.M. Toffolo
Tony Wauters
Greet Vanden Berghe
Multi-machine energy-aware scheduling
description The traditional set of manufacturing scheduling problems concern general and easy-to-measure economic objectives such as makespan and tardiness. The variable nature of energy costs over the course of the day remains mostly ignored by most previous research. This variability should not be considered an added complexity, but rather an opportunity for businesses to minimise their energy bill. More effectively scheduling jobs across multiple machines may result in reduced costs despite fixed consumption levels. To this end, this paper proposes a scheduling approach capable of optimising this largely undefined and, consequently, currently unaddressed situation. The proposed multi-machine energy optimisation approach consists of constructive heuristics responsible for generating an initial solution and a late acceptance hill climbing algorithm responsible for improving this initial solution. The combined approach was applied to the scheduling instances of the ICON challenge on Forecasting and Scheduling [The challenge is organized as part of the EU FET-Open: Inductive Constraint Programming (ICON) project (O’Sullivan et al., ICON challenge on forecasting and scheduling. UCC, University College Cork, ICON, Cork. http://iconchallenge.insight-centre.org/challenge-energy, 2014)] whereupon it was proven superior to all other competing algorithms. This achievement highlights the potential of the proposed algorithm insofar as solving the multi-machine energy-aware optimisation problem (MEOP). The new benchmarks are available for further research.
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author David Van Den Dooren
Thomas Sys
TúlioA.M. Toffolo
Tony Wauters
Greet Vanden Berghe
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title Multi-machine energy-aware scheduling
title_short Multi-machine energy-aware scheduling
title_full Multi-machine energy-aware scheduling
title_fullStr Multi-machine energy-aware scheduling
title_full_unstemmed Multi-machine energy-aware scheduling
title_sort multi-machine energy-aware scheduling
publisher Elsevier
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