Production and Operations Management · 1993 · 23 citations · 19 references
BusinessDecision SciencesOperations ManagementDecision AnalysisDecision TheorySchedulingJob SchedulingJob Shop SchedulingMachine SchedulingPriority DeterminationQueueing TheoryScheduling TheoryDecision-making TheoryDispatchingExperimental Results InterpretationJob Shop SimulationPriority DispatchingPriority QueueingPriority Queueing ModelsQueueing-based Scheduling
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.
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