汽车滚装码头泊位调度优化模型与算法研究

本文研究滚装码头混合泊位分配和劳动力分配的联合调度优化问题。首先,考虑潮汐时间窗约束、装卸劳动力约束、泊位缆桩分布约束以及泊位不规则布局因素,建立以最小化船舶总服务时间为目标的混合整数规划模型。其次,采用内外嵌套算法设计策略,提出求解该类问题的组合算法。其中,外层是多种群并行进化的遗传算法,生成多种船舶计划顺序,内层为基于规则的启发式算法,用于计算给定计划顺序的目标函数值。然后,基于实际运营数据,生成多组不同规模的算例进行全面数值实验,结果表明所提出的算法可在10分钟内求解包含50艘船、100个泊段的算例。最后,开展基于真实滚装码头运营实例的案例分析,对所提模型和算法在实际码头调度问题中的适用性与高效性进行验证。     

考虑老年人感知满意度的社区居家养老护理人员调度策略研究

近年来,随着人口老龄化进程不断加快,社区居家养老模式越来越受到社会各界的高度关注。为了向社区居家养老服务中心护理人员调度提供决策支持,研究考虑老年人感知满意度的护理人员调度问题。以社区居家养老预约服务为背景,首先融合前景理论和模糊理论分别从老年人等待时间、老年人对护理人员偏好和老年人对服务价格偏好三个方面建立老年人感知满意度函数;其次确定主要目标为最大化老年人综合感知满意度,次要目标为最小化社区居家养老服务中心运营成本的优化调度问题,并且构建了相应的混合整数非线性规划数学模型;最后综合应用遗传算法和模拟植物生长算法(PGSA)对该模型进行求解,其中遗传算法用于求解护理人员的服务顺序,PGSA用于求解护理人员调度方案,并且利用MATLAB软件进行仿真,同时引入粒子群算法与PGSA进行计算对比,发现PGSA在性能参数和计算时间方面都有明显的优势。通过算例验证分析,结果表明该模型在考虑老年人感知满意度的基础上,能够获得最优的护理人员调度方案,证明了上述优化模型和算法的可行性和有效性。     

面向多检查的门诊患者调度研究

及时的检查对于患者病情诊断和治疗非常重要。然而,患者不同的紧急程度、检查项目的多样性、以及患者的行为因素如失约等,使门诊患者调度问题难以求解。为解决该问题,本文考虑患者对两种检查项目的不同需求,两类不同的紧急程度,以及患者失约和医生加班,建立了有限时域马尔可夫决策过程(MDP)模型,目标是使得患者检查所得的期望收益最大化以及期望加班时间惩罚成本最小化。由于MDP模型复杂,难以用解析方法来分析最优控制策略,因此本文基于MDP模型进行数值实验,观察最优解的结构特征,进一步构造了两种参数化启发式调度策略,并采用遗传算法对调度策略的参数进行优化。数值实验比较了最优控制策略、两种启发式调度策略以及先到先服务规则,实验结果表明本文所提的调度策略性能偏离最优解不超过10%;当工作负荷非常大时,启发式调度策略远远优于先到先服务规则。     

一种双目标带约束工件成类的平行机器调度启发式规则

提出了一种快速而有效的启发式规则(fam ily slack,简称FSLACK),来求解极小化总延误时间和极小化最大完工时间两个目标,工件按产品类型成组,带模具数量约束的平行机器生产调度问题.本文提出的FSLACK与EDD、LPT及SLACK进行了比较.随机订单的测试结果表明,本文提出的启发式规则在求解双目标带约束工件成类的平行机器调度问题上是有效的.这表明该算法可以应用在成型加工业的现场作业调度.     

考虑均衡性的不确定时间车辆调度问题研究

本文针对车辆调度实际运行过程中时间的不确定性问题,提出了包含时间窗口、车辆容量约束的配送服务线路随机规划模型,以最小化调用的车辆数目和运行距离,降低顾客的不满意度并且尽可能保证每条路线的均衡性。结合模型,给出了基于禁忌搜索的混合启发式算法,并且生成多个算例,依据算例结果说明模型和算法优越性,同时说明可以在不降低顾客满意度和不提高总运输成本的基础上,降低各条线路之间的时间差异。     

动态空间调度的混合遗传算法

提出了一种基于混合遗传算法的动态空间调度方法。首先利用遗传算法产生多个可行的分段调度序列,再采用动态决定分段位置的启发式算法——平均最大空闲矩形策略对遗传算法产生的调度序列进行解码。同时以完工时间和平台利用率的加权和作为适应度函数,充分考虑了空间调度问题所特有的动态性和时空关联性。遗传进化过程收敛后得到近似最优解,实现了调度方案的全局优化。对船厂实际生产数据进行了实证分析以及与其它算法的对比分析,证明了所提方法在空间调度问题上的有效性和实用性。     

通信网调度——B题

本文讨论了通信网络的文件传送最优化问题。文中设计了三类模型对不同类型的网络进行了分析;模型Ⅰ针对网络图为连通树且文件传送为单位时间的情况,给出两个定理,得到最短完成时间及最优调度方案;模型Ⅱ采用启发式解法给出了两种算法以得到一般网络的 近似最优调度方案。前两个模型都认为文件在传送中不可分,而模型Ⅲ在文件可分块传送假设下,基于图论中的匹配概念,给出了另一种有效的算法。 以上算法在个人微机上实现,并分别用来解决问题[1]中的情况A,B和C,根据文件是否可分,分别给出了网络的最短完成时间及调度方案,并证明了方案的最优性。 结果为:文件可分时,情况A,B和以C分别用3.0,23.0和29.6单位时间;文件不可分时,则分别用3.0,21.0和29.6单位时间。     

考虑多阶段共用平行机特征的拖轮作业模式优化

在对拖轮调度问题进行分析的基础之上,将拖轮调度问题归结为一类具有多阶段共用平行机器特征的多处理器任务调度问题。建立了考虑靠泊与停泊两阶段、考虑切换时间的拖轮调度优化模型,并设计了启发式规则与模拟退火相结合的混合算法(HSA)求解该模型。通过运用所设计算法求解仿真算例,并将其结果与三种基于现行调度规则的调度方案进行比较,验证了模型与算法的高效性。基于此,对不同拖轮数量状态下的调度研究结果显示,拖轮总作业时间与平均单艘拖轮作业时间二者存在着一定的矛盾性;并指出采用拖轮适时返回停泊基地的作业模式,可有效地降低拖轮作业时间,进而提高有限拖轮资源的利用率,实现节能减排、绿色运输。     

考虑部分工件不可打扰的多任务调度问题研究

多任务调度问题存在于各种应用领域,如因特网服务领域,医疗领域等。经典的多任务调度模型中所有工件均可被其他等待工件打扰,且仅打扰一次。然而在生产实践过程中,有些紧急工件是不允许被其他工件打扰。在此启发下,对原有模型进行扩展,研究了在单机多任务环境下部分工件不可打扰的调度问题,模型目标包括最小化最大完工时间,最小化总完工时间,最小化最大延迟以及最小化加权提前期、拖延期和共同交货期之和。对于前三个目标给出了精确算法,对于最后一个目标给出了启发式算法。最后,对今后的研究提出了建议。     

工件优先级图为非连接图且含环的单机总加权拖期调度问题

为满足实际生产环境对工件加工顺序和工件到达时间的要求,提出了具有新特征的单机总加权拖期调度问题,其特点体现在:工件有动态到达时间,且由工件优先级关系构成的优先级图为非连接图且存在环的情况,对该问题建立数学规划模型,在扩展Tang和Xuan等的基础上,提出了结合双向动态规划的拉格朗日松弛算法求解该问题。在该算法的设计中,提出双向动态规划算法求解拉格朗日松弛问题,使得它可处理优先级图中一个工件可能有多个紧前或紧后工件的情况,采用次梯度算法更新拉格朗日乘子,基于拉格朗日松弛问题的解设计启发式算法构造可行解。实验测试结果显示,所设计的拉格朗日松弛算法能够在较短的运行时间内得到令人满意的近优解,为更复杂的调度问题的求解提供了思路。     

Dynamic multi-priority,multi-class patient scheduling with stochastic service times

Efficient patient scheduling has significant operational, clinical and economical benefits on health care systems by not only increasing the timely access of patients to care but also reducing costs. However, patient scheduling is complex due to, among other aspects, the existence of multiple priority levels, the presence of multiple service requirements, and its stochastic nature. Patient appointment (allocation) scheduling refers to the assignment of specific appointment start times to a set of patients scheduled for a particular day while advance patient scheduling refers to the assignment of future appointment days to patients. These two problems have generally been addressed separately despite each being highly dependent on the form of the other. This paper develops a framework that incorporates stochastic service times into the advance scheduling problem as a first step towards bridging these two problems. In this way, we not only take into account the waiting time until the day of service but also the idle time/overtime of medical resources on the day of service. We first extend the current literature by providing theoretical and numerical results for the case with multi-class, multi-priority patients and deterministic service times. We then adapt the model to incorporate stochastic service times and perform a comprehensive numerical analysis on a number of scenarios, including a practical application. Results suggest that the advance scheduling policies based on deterministic service times cannot be easily improved upon by incorporating stochastic service times, a finding that has important implications for practice and future research on the combined problem.     

Sequential clinical scheduling with service criteria

This study investigates sequential appointment scheduling with service criteria. It uses a constraint-based approach with service criteria bounded in a constraint set in contrast to the more typical weighted linear objective function. Properties are derived and a sequential scheduling algorithm is developed. Fairness properties of generated schedules are considered in detail, where fairness is the uniformity of performance across patients. New unfairness measures are proposed and used to capture the inequity among patients assigned to different slots. Other criteria such as expectation and variance of patient waiting time, queue length, and overtime are also considered. The fairness/revenue tradeoff is investigated as is the flexibility of the constraint-based approach in handling unavailable time periods.     

Optimal appointment scheduling in continuous time: The lag order approximation method

We study appointment scheduling problems in continuous time. A finite number of clients are scheduled such that a function of the waiting time of clients, the idle time of the server, and the lateness of the schedule is minimized. The optimal schedule is notoriously hard to derive within reasonable computation times. Therefore, we develop the lag order approximation method, that sets the client’s optimal appointment time based on only a part of his predecessors. We show that a lag order of two, i.e., taking two predecessors into account, results in nearly optimal schedules within reasonable computation times. We illustrate our approximation method with an appointment scheduling problem in a CT-scan area.     

Capacity allocation for demand of different customer-product-combinations with cancellations, no-shows, and overbooking when there is a sequential delivery of service

We consider a problem where different classes of customers can book different types of services in advance and the service company has to respond immediately to the booking request confirming or rejecting it. Due to the possibility of cancellations before the day of service, or no-shows at the day of service, overbooking the given capacity is a viable decision. The objective of the service company is to maximize profit made of class-type specific revenues, refunds for cancellations or no-shows as well as the cost of overtime. For the calculation of the latter, information of the underlying appointment schedule is required. Throughout the paper we will relate the problem to capacity allocation in radiology services. Drawing upon ideas from revenue management, overbooking, and appointment scheduling we model the problem as a Markov decision process in discrete time which due to proper aggregation can be optimally solved with an iterative stochastic dynamic programming approach. In an experimental study we successfully apply the approach to a real world problem with data from the radiology department of a hospital. Furthermore, we compare the optimal policy to four heuristic policies, of whom one is currently in use. We can show that the optimal policy significantly improves the currently used policy and that a nested booking limit type policy closely approximates the optimal policy and is thus recommended for use in practice.     

A stochastic appointment scheduling system on multiple resources with dynamic call-in sequence and patient no-shows for an outpatient clinic

This research focuses on the stochastic assignment system motivated by outpatient clinics, especially the physical therapy in rehabilitation service. The aim of this research is to develop a stochastic overbooking model to enhance the service quality as well as to increase the utilization of multiple resources, like therapy equipment in a physical therapy room, with the consideration of patients’ call-in sequence. The schedule for a single-service period includes a fixed number of blocks of equal length. When patients call, they are assigned to an appointment time for that block, and an existing appointment is not allowed to be changed. In each visit, a patient might require more than one resource and a probability of no-show. Two estimation methods were proposed for the expected waiting and overtime cost with multiple resources: Convolution Estimation Method and Joint Cumulative Estimation Method for the upper and lower bound value; respectively. A numerical example based on a physical therapy room was used to show that this stochastic model was able to schedule patients for better profitability compared with traditional appointment systems based on four prioritization rules. The workload in each appointment slot was more balanced albeit more patients were assigned to the first slot to fill up the empty room.     

Dynamic Scheduling of a Multiclass Fluid Model with Transient Overload

We study the optimal dynamic scheduling of different requests of service in a multiclass stochastic fluid model that is motivated by recent and emerging computing paradigms for Internet services and applications. In particular, our focus is on environments with specific performance guarantees for each class under a profit model in which revenues are gained when performance guarantees are satisfied and penalties are incurred otherwise. Within the context of the corresponding fluid model, we investigate the dynamic scheduling of different classes of service under conditions where the workload of certain classes may be overloaded for a transient period of time. Specifically, we consider the case with two fluid classes and a single server whose capacity can be shared arbitrarily among the two classes. We assume that the class 1 arrival rate varies with time and the class 1 fluid can more efficiently reduce the holding cost. Under these assumptions, we characterize the optimal server allocation policy that minimizes the holding cost in the fluid model when the arrival rate function for class 1 is known. Using the insights gained from this deterministic case, we study the stochastic fluid system when the arrival rate function for class 1 is random and develop various policies that are optimal or near optimal under various conditions. In particular, we consider two different types of heavy traffic regimes and prove that our proposed policies are strongly asymptotically optimal. Numerical examples are also provided to demonstrate further that these policies yield good results in terms of minimizing the expected holding cost.     

服务大规模定制模式下的供应链调度优化

为了提升服务大规模定制(SMC)模式下供应链系统的运作柔性,应对客户较强的多样化需求特征,本文在对服务定制特征分析、服务阶段界定以及服务规模效应探讨的基础上,指出SCM模式下的供应链调度问题是一个典型的随机需求与随机资源约束的多目标动态优化问题。研究了SMC模式下供应链调度的优化目标与约束条件,建立了完整的随机多目标动态调度优化数学模型。基于SMC运作的特点,运用改进的蚁群算法对调度问题进行了求解。最后,通过实例分析了模型及算法的可行性、有效性及适用性。     

Single machine stochastic JIT scheduling problem subject to machine breakdowns

In this paper we research the single machine stochastic JIT scheduling problem subject to the machine breakdowns for preemptive-resume and preemptive-repeat.The objective function of the problem is the sum of squared deviations of the job-expected completion times from the due date.For preemptive-resume,we show that the optimal sequence of the SSDE problem is V-shaped with respect to expected processing times.And a dynamic programming algorithm with the pseudopolynomial time complexity is given.We discuss the difference between the SSDE problem and the ESSD problem and show that the optimal solution of the SSDE problem is a good approximate optimal solution of the ESSD problem,and the optimal solution of the SSDE problem is an optimal solution of the ESSD problem under some conditions.For preemptive-repeat,the stochastic JIT scheduling problem has not been solved since the variances of the completion times cannot be computed.We replace the ESSD problem by the SSDE problem.We show that the optimal sequence of the SSDE problem is V-shaped with respect to the expected occupying times.And a dynamic programming algorithm with the pseudopolynomial time complexity is given.A new thought is advanced for the research of the preemptive-repeat stochastic JIT scheduling problem.     

Single Machine Group Scheduling with Two Ordered Criteria

The problem of scheduling jobs on a single machine is considered. It is assumed that the jobs are classified into several groups and the jobs of the same group have to be processed contiguously. A sequence independent set-up time is incurred between each two consecutively scheduled groups. A schedule is specified by a sequence for the groups and a sequence for the jobs in each group. The quality of a schedule is measured by two critera ordered by their relative importance. The objective is to minimize the maximum cost, the secondary criterion, subject to the schedule is optimal with respect to total weighted completion time, the primary criterion. A polynomial time algorithm is presented to solve this bicriterion group scheduling problem. It is shown that this algorithm can also be modified to solve the single machine group scheduling problem with several ordered maximum cost criteria and arbitrary precedence constraints.