[PDF] Top 20 Simulation-based Optimization of Coal Barge Scheduling

... metrics against the best result so far, and ultimately finding the best result out of all of the replications. The model objects in the Visual Basic implementation employ properties and algorithms to act much like the ... See full document

... Sier et al. [80] used simulated annealing to compute near optimal solutions to a mixed integer nonlinear programming model. In their model, they schedule surgeries depending on the patient age (younger patients earlier ... See full document

... assumptions and proposed a branch and bound method for its resolution. Later on, Lim et al. (2004) studied a more realistic version of the QCSP with complete bays by considering the non-interference constraints. Three ... See full document

... the simulation model were developed [9],incorporating concepts such as nearest-neighbor velocity matching and acceleration by ...the simulation could be used as an optimizer, several parameters were ... See full document

... day-ahead scheduling should be done [9], ...multi-objective optimization to day-ahead scheduling and reference [10] has proposed a model to day-ahead scheduling diesel generator in an HRES ... See full document

... rule based system with concepts and operations associated with Fuzzy set theory and Fuzzy ...rule based system which is mapping input spaces to output ...(inputs) based on the stored knowledge of how ... See full document

... traditional scheduling approach of optimization-based scheduling is that it requires that all the data be fully known and ...system. Simulation-based extends traditional ... See full document

... the simulation- based algorithm described in the next section), assuming again (as an approximation) that the system is in steady-state in each of the three periods, we find a feasible solution with 35 ... See full document

... support a mobile crane for casting activities. The mobile crane is available only for a limited time, so that only the casting activities can make use of it. The initial project costs are 600$ per day, and 100$ per day ... See full document

... task scheduling. The particles are generated based on the number of processors used, number of tasks that have arrived at a particular point of time and population size is ...time based on the ... See full document

... Hamid Reza Ghasemi, et al(2014) explains that for a particular power the per core voltage domain performance can be improved. All processors cores has single voltage domain. Because of splitting based on core and ... See full document

... workflow scheduling is regarded as an NP-hard problem ...workflow scheduling refers to the assignment of tasks to virtual resources according to execution sequence ... See full document

... reservoir simulation) and compare results to decide the optimal development ...real-time optimization method of reservoir production is proposed for the ...numerical simulation and ... See full document

... is based on maximization of the availability of the machines, that is the lesser PM operations, availability is more; Contrary to this policy, policy III is based on maintaining a minimum reliability ... See full document

... task scheduling, etc, but it doesn’t get a good performance since there are still some problems in pheromone update and the parameters ...colony optimization get a better performance, a self adaptive ant ... See full document

... job scheduling problem in virtual manufacturing cells (VMCs) with the goal of minimizing two objectives namely, makespan and total travelling ...knowledge- based non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm ... See full document

... In coal industry, General Managers and Project Officers/ Agents become accountable for everything, while other executives take advantage of ...responsibility scheduling every month for each project could ... See full document

... resources scheduling is essential for executing workflows in the cloud platform because it relates to both the execution time and execution ...For scheduling T tasks on R resources, an ant in ACS represents ... See full document

... A Cloud is a type of parallel and distributed system consisting of a collection of interconnected and virtualized computers that are dynamically provisioned and presented as one or more unified computing resources ... See full document

... The scientific method as described here is an idealization, and should not be understood as a set procedure for doing science. Sci- entists have as many weaknesses and character flaws as any other group, and it is very ... See full document