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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2019
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, SA;
Hesham K. Alfares, Dhahran, SA;
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, SA;
Abstract
A method, computer software product and system for solving cyclic scheduling problems. Specifically, the present disclosure significantly improves the method in a previous patent (H. K. Alfares, 2011, 'Cyclic Combinatorial Method and System', U.S. Pat. No. 8,046,316), by eliminating a time-consuming combinatorial procedure. A procedure is described which significantly decreases the number of iterations, and hence computational time and cost. The processes of the present disclosure have many applications in cyclic workforce scheduling, cyclic transportation system scheduling, cyclic scheduling of data packet transmitting as applied to networks having a plurality of nodes and cyclic production scheduling.