Formal specification of batch scheduling problems: A step toward integration and benchmarking

HENNING, GABRIELA

Competitive manufacturing for Innovative Products and Services.

Springer-IFIP

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2013; p. 96 - 103

Nowadays, the importance of effective tools for supporting scheduling and planning activities in the batch process industries is undeniable. De-spite the inherent difficulties of the chemical production scheduling problem, the academic community has made tremendous advances in the last two decades, developing efficient solution methodologies for a wide collection of problem types and plant operation scenarios. The most accepted approaches rely on a diversity of mixed-integer linear pro-gramming (MILP) models and Constraint Programming (CP) formulations, which have been recently analyzed and compared.