Scheduling & Optimization
Scheduling is an important tool for manufacturing and service industries, where it can have a major impact on the productivity of a process. In manufacturing, the purpose of scheduling is to minimize the production time and costs, by telling a production facility what to make, when, with which staff, and on which equipment. Similarly, scheduling in service industries, such as airlines and public transport, aims to maximize the efficiency of the operation and reduce costs. Currently, our research focuses on the minimization of job completion time variance (CTV), which is dedicated to provide the jobs with a uniform or fair treatment.
Wireless Sensor Networks
Energy efficiency is crucial for large scale sensor networks due to the intrinsic resource constraints of the wireless sensors and the infeasibility to change depleted batteries that may reside in hostile environments. This work proposes an energy efficient routing algorithm based on a two-layer wireless sensor network (WSN) architecture to maximize the lifetime. The proposed scheme takes advantage of the geographic deployment knowledge to build routing protocols.