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A semantics-based dispatching rule selection approach for job shop scheduling

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  • Heng Zhang

    (Syracuse University)

  • Utpal Roy

    (Syracuse University)

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Dispatching rules are commonly used for job shop scheduling in industries because they are easy to implement, and they yield reasonable solutions within a very short computational time. Many dispatching rules have been developed but they can only perform well in specific scenarios. This is because a dispatching rule or a combination of dispatching rules always pursues a single or multiple fixed production objectives. A lot of approaches (e.g. simulation based or machine learning based approaches) have been published in the literatures attempted to solve the problem of selecting the proper dispatching rules for a given production objective. To select a combination of dispatching rules per randomly selected combination of objectives, this paper investigates a novel semantics-based dispatching rule selection system. Each of the dispatching rules and production objectives relates to a set of scheduling parameters like processing time, remaining work, total work, due date, release date, tardiness, etc. These parameters are semantically interrelated so that a dispatching rule and a production objective can also be semantically related through their semantic expressions. A semantic similarity value can be calculated by comparing their semantic expressions. Based on this idea, a semantics-based dispatching rule selection system for job shop scheduling is developed to generate a combination of dispatching rules given randomly selected combination of production objectives. A proof-of-concept verification process is provided at the end of the paper.

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  • Heng Zhang & Utpal Roy, 2019. "A semantics-based dispatching rule selection approach for job shop scheduling," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 30(7), pages 2759-2779, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joinma:v:30:y:2019:i:7:d:10.1007_s10845-018-1421-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s10845-018-1421-z
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