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The Job-shop Scheduling Problem (JSP) is a well-known and challenging combinatorial optimization problem in which tasks sharing a machine are to be arranged in a sequence such that encompassing jobs can be completed as early as possible. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Mohammed M. S. El-Kholany , Martin Gebser , Konstantin Schekotihin

Scheduling on dataflow graphs (also known as computation graphs) is an NP-hard problem. The traditional exact methods are limited by runtime complexity, while reinforcement learning (RL) and heuristic-based approaches struggle with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Jiaqi Yin , Cunxi Yu

In this paper, we show how a resource allocation problem can be solved through Integer Linear Programming (ILP). A detailed illustrative example is presented, together with an exhaustive overview of the mathematical model. The size of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Filip De Turck

Public transport is vital for meeting people's mobility needs. Providers need to plan their services well to offer high quality and low cost. Optimized planning can benefit providers, customers, and municipalities. The planning process for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Lucas Mertens , Lena-Antonia Wolbeck , David Rößler , Lin Xie , Natalia Kliewer

This paper studies the application of the simulated annealing metaheuristic on the identical parallel machine scheduling problem, a variant of the broader optimal job scheduling problem. In the identical parallel machine scheduling problem,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Jiaxing Li , David Perkins

When scheduling quantum operations, a shorter overall execution time of the resulting schedule yields a better throughput and higher fidelity output. In this paper, we demonstrate that quantum operation scheduling can be interpreted as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Toshinari Itoko , Takashi Imamichi

The operating system's role in a computer system is to manage the various resources. One of these resources is the Central Processing Unit. It is managed by a component of the operating system called the CPU scheduler. Schedulers are…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2010-11-09 George Anderson , Tshilidzi Marwala , Fulufhelo V. Nelwamondo

In this paper we consider the problem of scheduling on parallel machines with a presence of incompatibilities between jobs. The incompatibility relation can be modeled as a complete multipartite graph in which each edge denotes a pair of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Tytus Pikies , Krzysztof Turowski , Marek Kubale

Staff scheduling is a well-known problem in operations research and finds its application at hospitals, airports, supermarkets, and many others. Its goal is to assign shifts to staff members such that a certain objective function, e.g.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Debsankha Manik , Rico Raber

The task of finding efficient production schedules for parallel machines is a challenge that arises in most industrial manufacturing domains. There is a large potential to minimize production costs through automated scheduling techniques,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Christoph Einspieler , Matthias Horn , Marie-Louise Lackner , Patrick Malik , Nysret Musliu , Felix Winter

In this work, we consider a scheduling problem faced by production companies with large electricity consumption. Due to the contract with the electric utility, the production companies are obligated to comply with the total energy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-14 István Módos , Přemysl Šůcha , Zdeněk Hanzálek

In the development of industrial digital twins, the optimization problem of technological and business processes often arises. In many cases, this problem can be reduced to a large-scale linear programming (LP) problem. The article is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Leonid B. Sokolinsky , Irina M. Sokolinskaya

In industrial resource allocation problems, an initial planning stage may solve a nominal problem instance and a subsequent recovery stage may intervene to repair inefficiencies and infeasibilities due to uncertainty, e.g.\ machine failures…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Dimitrios Letsios , Miten Mistry , Ruth Misener

We propose a protocol based on coherent states and linear optics operations for solving the appointment-scheduling problem. Our main protocol leaks strictly less information about each party's input than the optimal classical protocol, even…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Dave Touchette , Benjamin Lovitz , Norbert Lütkenhaus

In realistic production scenarios, Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) tools often require manual intervention by production planners, as the system works with incomplete information, resulting in suboptimal schedules. Often, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Lukáš Nedbálek , Antonín Novák

Process Planning and Scheduling (PPS) is an essential and practical topic but a very intractable problem in manufacturing systems. Many research use iterative methods to solve such problems; however, they cannot achieve satisfactory results…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Kai Sun

A core part of the rehabilitation scheduling process consists of planning rehabilitation physiotherapy sessions for patients, by assigning proper operators to them in a certain time slot of a given day, taking into account several legal,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Matteo Cardellini , Paolo De Nardi , Carmine Dodaro , Giuseppe Galatà , Anna Giardini , Marco Maratea , Ivan Porro

This paper presents a scheduling framework that is configured for, and used in physic systems. Our work addresses the problem of scheduling various computationally intensive and data intensive applications that are required for extracting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-12-12 Florin Pop

We consider the following shared-resource scheduling problem: Given a set of jobs $J$, for each $j\in J$ we must schedule a job-specific processing volume of $v_j>0$. A total resource of $1$ is available at any time. Jobs have a resource…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Christoph Damerius , Peter Kling , Florian Schneider

Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth of distributed machine learning (ML) frameworks, which exploit the massive parallelism of computing clusters to expedite ML training. However, the proliferation of distributed ML frameworks also…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Menglu Yu , Jia Liu , Chuan Wu , Bo Ji , Elizabeth S. Bentley