• DocumentCode
    3180994
  • Title

    A complete complexity study of one-processor assembly and manufacturing planning tasks

  • Author

    Ramos, Carlos ; Rocha, João ; Vale, Zita

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    369
  • Lastpage
    374
  • Abstract
    This paper deals with a method to compute the number of plans that exist for an assembly or processing task. Since planning is a NP-hard problem, the application of some search methods must be avoided. However, up to now, the computation of the exact number of alternative plans for complex tasks and considering precedence constraints has not been performed. It is shown that the complexity of the problem does not depend just on the number of involved operations, components or parts. The complexity of the problem depends on the topology of the precedence between operations
  • Keywords
    assembly planning; computational complexity; production control; topology; trees (mathematics); NP-hard problem; assembly planning; complex tasks; manufacturing; parse trees; production control; slot block theory; topology; Assembly; Computer aided manufacturing; Explosions; Manufacturing processes; Manufacturing systems; NP-hard problem; Process planning; Pulp manufacturing; Search methods; Topology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Assembly and Task Planning, 2001, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Fukuoka
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7004-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISATP.2001.929057
  • Filename
    929057