The combination of Petri net (PN) modeling with AI-based heuristic search (HS) algorithms
(PNHS) has been successfully applied as an integrated approach to deal with scheduling …

Timed Petri nets (TPNs) have been widely used for modeling discrete-event systems of
diverse manufacturing and service industries. In this article, we introduce a reachability tree …

The effective scheduling of operations in batch plants has a great potential for high
economic returns, in which the formulation and an optimal solution algorithm are the main …

Petri Nets have been extensively used to model different types of manufacturing systems.
However, the “state explosion” and the NP-hard nature of many scheduling problems related …

To achieve a significant improvement in the overall performance of a flexible manufacturing
system, the scheduling process must consider the interdependencies that exist between the …

Given the fluctuations in demand, diversity in products, production flexibility requirements,
and tight customer due dates, obtaining optimal production schedules is considered a …

Petri nets have been extensively used to model the dynamics of various types of
manufacturing systems due to their power to capture the complex characteristics of many of …

This paper studies modelling and scheduling of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS)
using Petri Nets (PNs) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on heuristic search methods. A …

This article proposes a novel anytime search method for the scheduling problem of resource
allocation systems (RASs) based on Petri nets (PNs). The method combines the A search …

Resource allocation systems (RASs) belong to a kind of discrete event system commonly
seen in the industry. In such systems, available resources are allocated to concurrently …