IEEE ICMA 2009 Conference Plenary Talk 1 Building Automation: Modeling and Optimization of Emergency

With time-based competition and rapid technology advancements, effective manufacturing scheduling and supply chain coordination are critical to quickly respond to changing market conditions. These problems, however, are difficult in view of inherent complexity and various uncertainties involved. A manufacturing problem is first formulated within the job shop context with order arrivals, processing times, due dates, and part priorities as a separable optimization problem. A solution methodology that combines Lagrangian