Abstract Most papers in scheduling research have treated individual job processing times as fixed parameters. However, in many practical situations, a manager may control processing time by reallocating resources. In ...Abstract Most papers in scheduling research have treated individual job processing times as fixed parameters. However, in many practical situations, a manager may control processing time by reallocating resources. In this paper, authors consider a machine scheduling problem with controllable processing times. In the first part of this paper, a special case where the processing times and compression costs are uniform among jobs is discussed. Theoretical results are derived that aid in developing an O(n 2) algorithm to slove the problem optimally. In the second part of this paper, authors generalize the discussion to general case. An effective heuristic to the general problem will be presented.展开更多
The integration of agent technology with InformationSystems(ISs)to assist in dealing with informa- tion overload andcomplex problems has received increasing over recent years. Thispaper studies the necessity for the a...The integration of agent technology with InformationSystems(ISs)to assist in dealing with informa- tion overload andcomplex problems has received increasing over recent years. Thispaper studies the necessity for the application of agent technologyis today's ISs, and discusses some kinds of applications of agenttechnology in ISs.展开更多
文摘Abstract Most papers in scheduling research have treated individual job processing times as fixed parameters. However, in many practical situations, a manager may control processing time by reallocating resources. In this paper, authors consider a machine scheduling problem with controllable processing times. In the first part of this paper, a special case where the processing times and compression costs are uniform among jobs is discussed. Theoretical results are derived that aid in developing an O(n 2) algorithm to slove the problem optimally. In the second part of this paper, authors generalize the discussion to general case. An effective heuristic to the general problem will be presented.
文摘The integration of agent technology with InformationSystems(ISs)to assist in dealing with informa- tion overload andcomplex problems has received increasing over recent years. Thispaper studies the necessity for the application of agent technologyis today's ISs, and discusses some kinds of applications of agenttechnology in ISs.
