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Allocation of partially renewable resources: Concept, capabilities, and applications
Author(s) -
Schirmer Andreas,
Drexl Andreas
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
networks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.977
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1097-0037
pISSN - 0028-3045
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0037(200101)37:1<21::aid-net3>3.0.co;2-w
Subject(s) - computer science , renewable resource , renewable energy , operations research , mathematical optimization , mathematics , biology , ecology
Enterprises face mounting pressures to reduce costs and to better use existing staff or equipment. At least in part, these pressures can be met by more efficient and intelligent planning; methods for this task lie at the heart of management science and operations research. Successful application of such methods depends on unambiguous model formulations. They, in turn, call for expressive modeling concepts that allow one to capture a wide range of requirements appearing in real;hyphen;world problems. Throughout the last decade, one particularly successful modeling concept in this regard has been the one of scarce resources. We generalize the classical resource concepts of nonrenewable and renewable resources to partially renewable ones. In addition to a very general class of resource limitations, partially renewable resources allow one to formulate a variety of logical relations between scheduling decisions. This paper demonstrates different ways to make use of these capabilities, in terms of model formulations as well as of practical applications. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.