Job-Shop Scheduling Theory: What Is Relevant?

Kenneth N. McKay, Frank R. Safayeni and John A. Buzacott
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Kenneth N. McKay: Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Frank R. Safayeni: Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
John A. Buzacott: Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

Interfaces, 1988, vol. 18, issue 4, 84-90

Abstract: The theoretical approach of OR and AI to scheduling often is not applicable to the dynamic characteristics of the actual situation. A preliminary field study is used to illustrate that the basic theoretical approach does not represent the reality of open job-shop scheduling, and its applicability is limited to those situations that are fundamentally static and behave like the models. Better understanding and modeling of the scheduling situation is needed.

Keywords: production/scheduling: job-shop; artificial intelligence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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