CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN A SUPPLY LINE : COMPLEXITY ANALYSIS Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • We study conflict and cooperation issues in a two-stage production system. The objective of the first stage is to minimize the sum of the completion times of all n jobs. The second stage's objective is to minimize the number of tardy jobs; There is an intermediate buffer connecting the first and the second stage. If required, jobs are re-sequenced at this buffer to enhance the performance of the system. There is a cost associated with the re-sequencing of jobs at this buffer. The performance of the system is measured by a convex combination of the costs at each stage, and the cost of re-sequencing of the jobs at the intermediate buffer. Each production stage has an ideal schedule determined by its cost considerations. We show that when a stage solves its scheduling problem under the constraints imposed on it by the other stage, the resulting system will be suboptimal. We prove that the coordination problem is NP-hard in the strong sense. 2009 IFAC.

published proceedings

  • IFAC-PapersOnLine

author list (cited authors)

  • Manoj, U. V., Sriskandarajah, C., & Wagneur, E.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Manoj, UV||Sriskandarajah, C||Wagneur, E

publication date

  • January 2009