Scheduling using “activity-based modeling”

Author

Davidrajuh, Reggie

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

fYear

2011

fDate

4-7 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

45

Lastpage

49

Abstract

This paper presents an interesting approach known as “activity-based modeling (ABM)” for scheduling activities or operations in discrete-event based dynamic systems (DEDS). In this paper, firstly, ABM is introduced. Secondly, a new tool is known as GPenSIM is introduced; GPenSIM is developed for modeling and simulation of DEDS using the activity-based modeling approach; GPenSIM is based on Petri Nets. Thirdly, through a case study, this paper shows the effectiveness of activity-based modeling over the traditional “resource-based modeling” approach. The usefulness and uniqueness of this paper is the introduction of activity-based modeling and its application on the development of GPenSIM, and also the “proof-of-concept” - a scheduling example - is presented in the case study.

Keywords

Petri nets; discrete event systems; scheduling; ABM; GPenSIM; Petri nets; activity scheduling; activity-based modeling approach; discrete-event based dynamic systems; proof-of-concept; resource-based modeling approach; Belts; Dynamic scheduling; Job shop scheduling; Machining; Mathematical model; Petri nets; Robots; Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (DEDS); GPenSIM; Modeling and Simulation; Petri net; Scheduling; activity-based modeling (ABM);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Penang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2058-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162102

Filename

6162102