Title
Diverse task scheduling for individualized requirements in cloud manufacturing.
Abstract
Cloud manufacturing (CMfg) has emerged as a new manufacturing paradigm that provides ubiquitous, on-demand manufacturing services to customers through network and CMfg platforms. In CMfg system, task scheduling as an important means of finding suitable services for specific manufacturing tasks plays a key role in enhancing the system performance. Customers' requirements in CMfg are highly individualized, which leads to diverse manufacturing tasks in terms of execution flows and users' preferences. We focus on diverse manufacturing tasks and aim to address their scheduling issue in CMfg. First of all, a mathematical model of task scheduling is built based on analysis of the scheduling process in CMfg. To solve this scheduling problem, we propose a scheduling method aiming for diverse tasks, which enables each service demander to obtain desired manufacturing services. The candidate service sets are generated according to subtask directed graphs. An improved genetic algorithm is applied to searching for optimal task scheduling solutions. The effectiveness of the scheduling method proposed is verified by a case study with individualized customers' requirements. The results indicate that the proposed task scheduling method is able to achieve better performance than some usual algorithms such as simulated annealing and pattern search.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1080/17517575.2017.1364428
ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cloud manufacturing,individualized requirement,diverse task,scheduling,genetic algorithm
Cloud manufacturing,Job shop scheduling,Fair-share scheduling,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Directed graph,Scheduling (production processes),Genetic algorithm,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12.0
3
1751-7575
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.47
9
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Longfei Zhou1120.89
Lin Zhang2617.93
Chun Zhao3277.67
Yuanjun Laili419418.18
Lida Xu56275279.34