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EPSRC Reference:	GR/S34373/01
Title:	Disruption Management in Scheduling
Principal Investigator:	Chen, Professor B
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Project Partners:	Stanford University
Department:	Warwick Business School
Organisation:	University of Warwick
Scheme:	Overseas Travel Grants Pre-FEC
Starts:	01 February 2003	Ends:	30 April 2003	Value (£):	6,140
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Manufact. Enterprise Ops& Mgmt
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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This project is concerned with delivering high-quality solutions to planning and scheduling problems in the presence of major operational disruptions. The study will be an organic synthesis of a burgeoning field known as disruption management and a more established field, scheduling theory.From the viewpoint of operational research applications, recent few years have seen disruption management in action with a variety of applications related to real-time control of dynamic systems, project management, airline operations, and ship-building, to name a few. Typically, practitioners use simple-minded procedures to guide their planning activities and to determine workable schedules after operational disruptions have occurred. Research has shown, however, that such procedures frequently yield results that are an order of magnitude inferior to the optimum, and that substantial operational improvements and cost savings can be achieved with the use of more sophisticated analytic techniques, which are usually represented by algorithms-abstract models of implemented programs or solution procedures. The project aims to bring theoretical rationality to the field of disruption management as it relates to scheduling by developing efficient algorithms to construct a schedule that is optimal or near-optimal in the new environment after one or more disruptions or whose deviation from the original schedule (before the disruptions) is minimal.
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