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This proceedings volume contains selected and refereed
contributions that were presented at the conference on "Recent
Developments and New Perspectives of Operations Research in the
Area of Production Planning and Control" in Hagen/Germany, 25. -
26. June 1992. This conference was organized with the cooperation
of the FernuniversiHit Hagen and was jointly hosted by the
"Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Operations Research (DGOR)" and the
"Manufacturing Special Interest Group of the Operations Research
Society of America (ORSA-SIGMA)." For the organization of the
conference we received generous financial support from the sponsors
listed at the end of this volume. We wish to express our
appreciation to all supporters for their contributions. This
conference was the successor of the JOInt ORSA/DGOR-conference in
Gaithersburg/Maryland, USA, on the 30. and 31. July 1991. Both
OR-societies committed themselves in 1989 to host joint conferences
on special topics of interest from the field of operations
research. This goal has been successfully realized in the area of
production management; and it should be an incentive to conduct
similar joint conferences on other topics of operations research in
the years to come. The 36 contributions in this proceedings volume
deal with general and special problems in production planning as
well as approaches and algorithms for their solution. They cover a
wide range of operations research within product management and
will therefore address a wide circle of interested readers among
OR-scientists and professionals alike.
Basically five problems areas are addressed by operations research
specialists in the manufacturing domain: theore- tical and
practical aspectsin production planning, facility layout, inventory
control, tool management and scheduling. Some of these problems can
be solved off-line, while others must be treated as real-time
problems impacted by the changing state of the system.
Additionally, all of these problems have to be dealt with in an
integrated systems framework. Several new topics have recently
appeared in the scientific literature which now attract the
interest of operations researchers. These include distributed
real-time scheduling, hierarchical and heterarchical control
systems, integrated algorithms for design, process planning, and
equipment level programming, material handling in a finite capacity
resource environment, and designing and implementing distributed
data management systems. The contributions of these proceedings
represent new andunique theoretical developments and applications
related to these new topics. They deal with modelling production
structures and applying expert systems or neural networks to
production systems. Mathematical programming, control theory,
simulation, genetic algorithms, tabu search, and simulated
annealing are applied as solutiton techniques.
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