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For questions about methods that assign resources to work requests (e.g. processor time to tasks) usually minimizing some cost measure (e.g. makespan).

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How to implement a "generic" solver for scheduling problems?

As you mentioned about "scheduling/production planning problems", I refer it to manufacturing planning and detailed schedule. … Also, I know that there are specific methods to solve other planning and scheduling problems. (E.g. vehicle routing problem variants). …
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How to tackle large nurse scheduling problem?

Some useful references are: A workforce scheduling problem (column generation) A Flexible Mixed Integer Programming framework for Nurse Scheduling Employee Scheduling using OR-Tools Planning and Scheduling … Workforce Scheduling. chapter 13 by Michael L. Pinedo I hope, they would be useful. …
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What is the state-of-art (in industry and academy) of this scheduling + routing problem?

Besides other useful answers, there is a nice introduction for Technician Routing and Scheduling Problem which has been found in the Gurobi host. …
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How to combine MIP solver with a CP one?

I am working on the scheduling problem in the class of parallel resource scheduling models. When I have studied some papers regarding that, I see the method that combines an MIP with a CP. … Integer Programming and Constraint Programming in Solving a Multimachine Assignment Scheduling Problem with Deadlines and Release Dates. May 2006 - INFORMS Journal on Computing. 18(2):209-217 …
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What is the difference between job shop scheduling and resource constrained project scheduling?

Resource-constrained project scheduling defines as, allocate tasks to the resources that, in general, don't have a specific route. … If you are interested to develop a practical scheduling model, I recommended the below reference. Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services …
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How to include material flow in job shop scheduling problem (as constraint?)?

What you are looking for sounds like, combining the job-shop scheduling problem with material requirement planning or Multi-Periods Job-Shop Scheduling Problem. … Scheduling Problem …
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Job shop scheduling advice

Another important thing is, which kind of scheduling model (parallel scheduling, job shop, etc.) you have faced in your machinery area. To achieve your desired goals you have many options. … Also, other web-based scheduling software could be found by googling. …
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Visualizing results to the RCPSP

Please be aware that, there are two types of Gantt charts in the practical situation. First, the task Gantt chart and the second resource Gantt chart. Besides the python library proposed by @fontanf, …
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Meaning of the domain propagation in the context of mixed-integer programming

Now suppose we have a mixed-integer program, specifically a scheduling problem, with a mix of the binary (assigning) and positive (intervals) variables. …
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Scheduling Problem With Identical Machines

The first is, related to the power system optimization and the second is about machinery scheduling system. … For scheduling your plant, some things would be considered: If your plant optimization problem is medium/large scale, it is convenient to use LP/MILP instead of NLP/MINLP. …
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What class of scheduling problem models jobs which require multiple machines simultaneously?

The sequencing models (flow/job shops or hybrid too) are the basic (concept) in the scheduling. It means that to use them into the real world scheduling problems you will have to modify them. … AFAIK, as you mentioned constraints, it can be expressed as a specific project scheduling with resource constraints. …
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Trouble with scheduling problem assumptions

From a practical point of view, Scheduling models have own definitions according to the structure of the problem under study. …
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Scheduling with transition costs - DOCPLEX

According to you mentioned, it sounds like the Resource‐Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (RCPS). To execute such a problem with CPLEX, you have two different options. …
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Nested set in OPL/CPLEX

I'm trying to solve a scheduling problem using OPL/CPLEX. …
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Quantifying a measure of standard deviation in MILP

This is a very common in many of the practical scheduling software. Suppose for each part you know how long it takes to complete in each machin. …
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