Journal
AICHE JOURNAL
Volume 62, Issue 5, Pages 1646-1667Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/aic.15183
Keywords
process scheduling; uncertainty; robust optimization
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Funding
- National Science Foundation [CBET-1510787]
- University of Patras
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1510787] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Variations in parameters such as processing times, yields, and availability of materials and utilities can have a detrimental effect in the optimality and/or feasibility of an otherwise optimal production schedule. In this article, we propose a multi-stage adjustable robust optimization approach to alleviate the risk from such operational uncertainties during scheduling decisions. We derive a novel robust counterpart of a deterministic scheduling model, and we show how to obey the observability and non-anticipativity restrictions that are necessary for the resulting solution policy to be implementable in practice. We also develop decision-dependent uncertainty sets to model the endogenous uncertainty that is inherently present in process scheduling applications. A computational study reveals that, given a chosen level of robustness, adjusting decisions to past parameter realizations leads to significant improvements, both in terms of worst-case objective as well as objective in expectation, compared to the traditional robust scheduling approaches. (C) 2016 American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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