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We introduce the first application of the lean methodology to machine learning projects. Similar to lean startups and lean manufacturing, we argue that lean machine learning (LeanML) can drastically slash avoidable wastes in commercial…
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This paper addresses a production scheduling problem derived from an industrial use case, focusing on unrelated parallel machine scheduling with the personnel availability constraint. The proposed model optimizes the production plan over a…
This paper considers a stochastic production planning problem with regime switching. There are two regimes corresponding to different economic cycles. A factory is planning its production so as to minimize production costs. We analyze this…
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We consider a problem of multi-product scheduling in production. Each product can be produced by a family of alternative multi-machine technologies. Multi-machine technologies require more than one machine at the same time. A sequence…
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While cyclic scheduling is involved in numerous real-world applications, solving the derived problem is still of exponential complexity. This paper focuses specifically on modelling the manufacturing application as a cyclic job shop problem…
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