Self-optimization aspects for dynamic scheduling

• Author(s): Pereira, Ivo ; Madureira, Ana Maria
• Date: 2010
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/1466
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Subject(s): Scheduling
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Scheduling is a critical function that is present throughout many industries and applications. A great need exists for developing scheduling approaches that can be applied to a number of different scheduling problems with significant impact on performance of business organizations. A challenge is emerging in the design of scheduling support systems for manufacturing environments where dynamic adaptation and optimization become increasingly important. At this scenario, self-optimizing arise as the ability of the agent to monitor its state and performance and proactively tune itself to respond to environmental stimuli.