@article{taner_hodgson_king_thoney_2003, title={Satisfying due-dates in a job shop with sequence-dependent family set-ups}, volume={41}, ISSN={["0020-7543"]}, DOI={10.1080/0020754031000149167}, abstractNote={This paper addresses job shop scheduling with sequence dependent family set-ups. Based on a simple, single-machine dynamic scheduling problem, state dependent scheduling rules for the single machine problem are developed and tested using Markov Decision Processes. Then, a generalized scheduling policy for the job shop problem is established based on a characterization of the optimal policy. The policy is combined with a 'forecasting' mechanism to utilize global shop floor information for local dispatching decisions. Computational results show that performance is significantly better than that of existing alternative policies.}, number={17}, journal={INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Taner, MR and Hodgson, TJ and King, RE and Thoney, KA}, year={2003}, month={Nov}, pages={4153–4169} }
 @article{thoney_hodgson_king_taner_wilson_2002, title={Satisfying due-dates in large multi-factory supply chains}, volume={34}, ISSN={["1545-8830"]}, DOI={10.1080/07408170208928913}, abstractNote={A procedure is developed for the simultaneous scheduling of multi-factory supply chains, including inter-factory transportation. A job-shop scheduling procedure, known to provide near-optimal solutions to industrial-sized problems, is enhanced to include transportation elements in the fundamental model. In order to demonstrate the quality of the solutions, a lower bound calculation is compared to the procedure's solutions on a number of large-scale test problems. The lower bound is an enhancement of the classic lower bound calculation for the N-job, M-machine job shop. The computational effort in scheduling is linear in the size of the problem, and high quality solutions to large-scale problems can be obtained in seconds.}, number={9}, journal={IIE TRANSACTIONS}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Thoney, KA and Hodgson, TJ and King, RE and Taner, MR and Wilson, AD}, year={2002}, month={Sep}, pages={803–811} }