Springer Modelling and Performance Analysis of Cyclic Systems: 241 (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 241)

Striking a balance between state-of-the-art research and practical applications, this book provides a forum for contributions that cover the main research challenges in the cyclic modeling, development, and validation of concurrently acting distributed production systems: systems that employ multi-assortment production in large quantities, are characterized by gradual changes in their product mix, and exclusively manufacture products in a cyclic manner. Similar issues also arise in computer systems, e.g., embedded systems. Cyclic optimization problems that occur in them are unique and under-researched, but are attracting new interest primarily due to their great practical importance and the difficulty involved in obtaining efficient algorithms for solving specific cases with real constraints arising from manufacturing practice. Addressing these and other topics, the book will be of great interest to researchers in computer science, operations management, and production control, as well as practicing managers and engineers. From the Back Cover Striking a balance between state-of-the-art research and practical applications, this book provides a forum for contributions that cover the main research challenges in the cyclic modeling, development, and validation of concurrently acting distributed production systems: systems that employ multi-assortment production in large quantities, are characterized by gradual changes in their product mix, and exclusively manufacture products in a cyclic manner. Similar issues also arise in computer systems, e.g., embedded systems. Cyclic optimization problems that occur in them are unique and under-researched, but are attracting new interest primarily due to their great practical importance and the difficulty involved in obtaining efficient algorithms for solving specific cases with real constraints arising from manufacturing practice. Addressing these and other topics, the book will be of great interest to researchers in computer science, operations management, and production control, as well as practicing managers and engineers. About the Author Wojciech Bożejko is an Associate Professor at Wrocław University of Science and Technology. He received his M.Sc. from the University of Wroclaw Institute of Computer Science in 1999, his Ph.D. from Wrocław University of Technology Institute of Engineering Cybernetics in 2003, and his D.Sc. (habilitation) from Wrocław University of Technology Faculty of Electronics in 2011. Since 2013, he has been an Associate Professor at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Politechnika Wrocławska), Faculty of Electronics, Department of Control Systems and Mechatronics. He is the author of over 230 peer-reviewed papers published in journals and conference proceedings, on parallel processing, scheduling and optimization. His research interests include methods for solving NP-hard problems, especially parallel algorithms, GPU computing, scheduling and discrete optimization, but also group theory and free probability. Grzegorz Bocewicz is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland. He received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications from Koszalin University of Technology, Poland, and his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in Computer Sciences from Wrocław University of Technology, Poland, in 2006, 2007 and 2014, respectively. Since 2016, he has been Dean of the Faculty of Electronics and Computer Science at Koszalin University of Technology. His research interests are in the modeling and design of decision support systems, methods for advanced planning and scheduling, constraints programming techniques, modeling and analyzing systems of