[Oz] vb interface and job-shop modelling

[Nikolay Pelov]

Hi,

I would suggest that you try ILOG OPL Studio -
http://www.ilog.com/products/oplstudio/

It is very easy to learn and has a special support for scheduling
applications: breaks, visualization, ...

There is also a book about it -
http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262720302

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Adriano Volpones wrote:

> Hi (and happy new year to you all)
>
> I am a new Oz developer involved in a complete reengineering of a job-shopscheduling application written in VBasic.
>
> I'm already developing with IF-Prolog but not completely satisfied for:
>
>   1 - the hard task of express non trivial problems in prolog
>
>   2 - the absence of a start-stop-resume function
>
>   3 - the extremely difficult task of debugging and visualizing the costraints and vars database
>
>   4 - the absence of a distributed model (to be developed from scratch)
>
>
>
> So before starting the hard work I need some suggestions or examples about:
>
>   1 - the method of interfacing with VBasic
>
>   2 - some non trivial scheduling models:
>
>       a - groups of non-equivalent machines (alternative) with different capacity
>
>       b - calendars of availability fo machines (breaks)
>
>       c - families of tasks with the same setup to be grouped to minimize the numb. of setups
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>                          Adriano Volpones
>
>

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