| Article ID: | iaor20063249 |
| Country: | China |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 8 |
| Start Page Number: | 69 |
| End Page Number: | 78 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2005 |
| Journal: | Systems Engineering Theory & Practice |
| Authors: | Sun Zhimin, Chen Wende, Yu Hongnian |
| Keywords: | scheduling |
In this paper, we study the non-blocking optimal control and scheduling problem of the multi-entry and multi-outlet serial production lines with finite buffers, and give state equation and optimal control, then give performance of production lines by using the row-difference monotonicity of matrix in the sense of max-algebra. In tyhe end, we solve the optimal schedule problem of the systems.