Branch-and-Bound and Heuristic Algorithms for Group Scheduling with Due-Date Assignment and Resource Allocation

Green scheduling that aims to enhance efficiency by optimizing resource allocation and job sequencing concurrently has gained growing academic attention. To tackle such problems with the consideration of scheduling and resource allocation, this paper considers a single-machine group scheduling probl...

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Main Authors: Hongyu He, Yanzhi Zhao, Xiaojun Ma, Zheng-Guo Lv, Ji-Bo Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-11-01
Series:Mathematics
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/11/23/4745
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Summary:Green scheduling that aims to enhance efficiency by optimizing resource allocation and job sequencing concurrently has gained growing academic attention. To tackle such problems with the consideration of scheduling and resource allocation, this paper considers a single-machine group scheduling problem with common/slack due-date assignment and a controllable processing time. The objective is to decide the optimized schedule of the group/job sequence, resource allocation, and due-date assignment. To solve the generalized case, this paper proves several optimal properties and presents a branch-and-bound algorithm and heuristic algorithms. Numerical experiments show that the branch-and-bound algorithm is efficient and the heuristic algorithm developed based on the analytical properties outruns the tabu search.
ISSN:2227-7390