CAREER: Scheduling of Large Scale Systems

学院早期职业发展(CALEAR)项目的研究和教育部分的目标都是提高大规模生产系统的有效调度和控制。信息技术的快速发展使人们对生产和分销网络的每个阶段都有了前所未有的了解，这突显了需要高效的算法和系统来帮助管理人员有效地分配资源，以及需要教育计划来帮助现任和未来的管理人员有效地使用这些算法和系统。这一职业研究涉及对几类大规模生产调度模型的严格分析。将开发新的工具来分析各种大规模生产调度问题的结构和通常采用的解决方法。这种分析将增加对这些系统的了解，并产生新的、有效的、健壮的生产调度算法，特别是涉及与交货期相关的目标的模型，包括在模型的背景下确定交货期的模型。此外，这些技术将应用于模型，这些模型捕捉到包含几个工厂、工厂或场地的制造过程中固有的复杂性。这项建议的教育部分侧重于传达概念和直觉，使学生能够有效地使用本研究产生的算法和系统。这包括开发新的课程，以及开发计算机游戏，帮助说明关于生产和分销网络以及供应链调度的重要直观概念。这些模型涉及调度和控制整个供应链的生产和分销，并将能够探索在不同设施的生产阶段之间保持半成品的成本、这些设施的有效利用和运输成本最小化之间的权衡。

The objectives of both the research and educational components of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project are to improve the efficient scheduling and control of large-scale production systems. Rapid advances in information technology have led to unprecedented visibility into each of tile stages of production and distribution networks' this has served to highlight the need for efficient algorithms and systems to assist managers with the effective allocation of resources, and for educational programs that help current and future managers effectively use these algorithms and systems. This CAREER research involves rigorous analytical analyses of several classes of large-scale production scheduling models. Novel tools will be developed in order to analyze both the structure of various large-scale production scheduling problems, and the solution approaches which are typically employed. This analysis will increase understanding of these systems, and lead to new, efficient, robust algorithms for production scheduling, with a particular focus on models which involve due date related objectives, including those in which due dates are determined within the context of the model. Additionally, these techniques will be applied to models which capture complexities inherent in manufacturing processes which encompass several plants, factories, or sites. The education portion of this proposal focuses on conveying the concepts and intuition which will enable students to effectively employ the algorithms and systems which result from this research. This includes the development of new courses, and the development of computer games which help to illustrate important intuitive concepts about production and distribution networks, and supply chain scheduling.These models involve scheduling and controlling production and distribution across a supply chain, and will enable the exploration of the tradeoff between the costs associated with holding semi-finished goods between production stages at different facilities, the efficient utilization of these facilities, and the minimization of transportation costs.