Hybridizing Discrete- and Continuous-Time Models for Batch Sizing and Scheduling Problems

• Main Authors: Wang, Siqun, Guignard, Monique
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: Business Administration, Management, and Operations
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/1914; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/2913/viewcontent/2003paper.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper proposes a new hybrid technique called partial parameter uniformization (hereafter PPU). The technique simplifies problems by ignoring the different values that certain problem parameters can take, which may facilitate the solution of some hard combinatorial optimization problems. PPU is...