The energy scheduling problem: Industrial case-study and constraint propagation techniques

Christian Artigues, Pierre Lopez and Alain Haït

International Journal of Production Economics, 2013, vol. 143, issue 1, 13-23

Abstract: This paper deals with production scheduling involving energy constraints, typically electrical energy. We start by an industrial case-study for which we propose a two-step integer/constraint programming method. From the industrial problem we derive a generic problem, the Energy Scheduling Problem (EnSP). We propose an extension of specific resource constraint propagation techniques to efficiently prune the search space for EnSP solving. We also present a branching scheme to solve the problem via tree search. Finally, computational results are provided.

Keywords: Production scheduling; Energy constraints; Constraint propagation; Energetic reasoning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2010.09.030

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