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A DECISION THEORY APPROACH TO PRIORITY DISPATCHING FOR JOB SHOP SCHEDULING
Author(s) -
KANET JOHN J.,
ZHOU ZHUOQUN
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
production and operations management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.279
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1937-5956
pISSN - 1059-1478
DOI - 10.1111/j.1937-5956.1993.tb00035.x
Subject(s) - computer science , queueing theory , operations research , job shop , scheduling (production processes) , mathematical optimization , management science , job shop scheduling , industrial engineering , flow shop scheduling , mathematics , economics , schedule , engineering , computer network , operating system
Recent developments in the design of job shop scheduling systems have inspired a new approach to priority dispatching. The basis for the approach is in elementary decision theory: at each decision juncture define the alternative courses of action, evaluate the consequences of each alternative according to a given criterion, and choose the best alternative. The experimental results of a simulated single machine queueing system reinforce earlier findings that a decision theory approach represents a significant advance over conventional priority dispatching.