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This paper introduces a novel reinforcement learning (RL) approach to scheduling mixed-criticality (MC) systems on processors with varying speeds. Building upon the foundation laid by [1], we extend their work to address the non-preemptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Muhammad El-Mahdy , Nourhan Sakr , Rodrigo Carrasco

The job shop scheduling problem (JSSP) remains a significant hurdle in optimizing production processes. This challenge involves efficiently allocating jobs to a limited number of machines while minimizing factors like total processing time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Henrik Abgaryan , Ararat Harutyunyan , Tristan Cazenave

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has shown a dramatic improvement in decision-making and automated control problems. Consequently, DRL represents a promising technique to efficiently solve many relevant optimization problems (e.g.,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Paul Almasan , José Suárez-Varela , Krzysztof Rusek , Pere Barlet-Ros , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

Neural approaches to the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP), particularly those based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL), have gained growing attention in recent years. However, existing methods rely on complex feature-engineered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiangjie Xiao , Cong Zhang , Wen Song , Zhiguang Cao

This paper studies Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques to enable team coordination behaviors in graph environments with support actions among teammates to reduce the costs of traversing certain risky edges in a centralized manner. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Manshi Limbu , Zechen Hu , Xuan Wang , Daigo Shishika , Xuesu Xiao

The scheduling of production resources (such as associating jobs to machines) plays a vital role for the manufacturing industry not only for saving energy but also for increasing the overall efficiency. Among the different job scheduling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Deepak Vivekanandan , Samuel Wirth , Patrick Karlbauer , Noah Klarmann

The dynamic job-shop scheduling problem (DJSP) is a class of scheduling tasks that specifically consider the inherent uncertainties such as changing order requirements and possible machine breakdown in realistic smart manufacturing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yunhui Zeng , Zijun Liao , Yuanzhi Dai , Rong Wang , Xiu Li , Bo Yuan

Scheduling is a fundamental task occurring in various automated systems applications, e.g., optimal schedules for machines on a job shop allow for a reduction of production costs and waste. Nevertheless, finding such schedules is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Pierre Tassel , Martin Gebser , Konstantin Schekotihin

The Flexible Job-shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) is a classical combinatorial optimization problem that has a wide-range of applications in the real world. In order to generate fast and accurate scheduling solutions for FJSP, various deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Xinquan Wu , Xuefeng Yan , Mingqiang Wei , Donghai Guan

The Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem (UPMSP) with release dates, setups, and eligibility constraints presents a significant multi-objective challenge. Traditional methods struggle to balance minimizing Total Weighted Tardiness…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bulent Soykan , Sean Mondesire , Ghaith Rabadi , Grace Bochenek

The Aircraft Landing Problem (ALP) is one of the challenging problems in aircraft transportation and management. The challenge is to schedule the arriving aircraft in a sequence so that the cost and delays are optimized. There are various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Vatsal Maru

In practice, it is quite common to face combinatorial optimization problems which contain uncertainty along with non-determinism and dynamicity. These three properties call for appropriate algorithms; reinforcement learning (RL) is dealing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Nathan Grinsztajn , Olivier Beaumont , Emmanuel Jeannot , Philippe Preux

The permutation flow shop scheduling (PFSS), aiming at finding the optimal permutation of jobs, is widely used in manufacturing systems. When solving large-scale PFSS problems, traditional optimization algorithms such as heuristics could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Longkang Li , Siyuan Liang , Zihao Zhu , Chris Ding , Hongyuan Zha , Baoyuan Wu

We consider the classical problem of scheduling task graphs corresponding to complex applications on distributed computing systems. A number of heuristics have been previously proposed to optimize task scheduling with respect to metrics…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Mehrdad Kiamari , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Job scheduling is widely used in real-world manufacturing systems to assign ordered job operations to machines under various constraints. Existing solutions remain limited by long running time or insufficient schedule quality, especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhengyi Kwan , Wei Zhang , Aik Beng Ng , Zhengkui Wang , Simon See

In smart manufacturing systems (SMSs), flexible job-shop scheduling with transportation constraints (FJSPT) is essential to optimize solutions for maximizing productivity, considering production flexibility based on automated guided…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Sihoon Moon , Sanghoon Lee , Kyung-Joon Park

Constraint Programming (CP) is a declarative programming paradigm that allows for modeling and solving combinatorial optimization problems, such as the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP). While CP solvers manage to find optimal or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Pierre Tassel , Martin Gebser , Konstantin Schekotihin

The Integrated Process Planning and Scheduling (IPPS) problem combines process route planning and shop scheduling to achieve high efficiency in manufacturing and maximize resource utilization, which is crucial for modern manufacturing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Hongpei Li , Han Zhang , Ziyan He , Yunkai Jia , Bo Jiang , Xiang Huang , Dongdong Ge

Graph generation is a fundamental task with broad applications, such as drug discovery. Recently, discrete flow matching-based graph generation, \aka, graph flow model (GFM), has emerged due to its superior performance and flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Baoheng Zhu , Deyu Bo , Delvin Ce Zhang , Xiao Wang

Skill ecosystems for LLM agents have matured rapidly, yet recent benchmarks show that providing agents with more skills does not monotonically improve performance -- focused sets of 2-3 skills outperform comprehensive documentation, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Tianle Xia , Lingxiang Hu , Yiding Sun , Ming Xu , Lan Xu , Siying Wang , Wei Xu , Jie Jiang