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Issues in the Integration of Planning and Scheduling for Enterprise Control

Karen Myers and Stephen Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of DARPA Symposium on Advances in Enterprise Control, November, 1999

Abstract

Effective control of large-scale enterprises requires a combination of long-range planning to identify appropriate strategies for meeting objectives and efficient scheduling of resources to ensure timely completion of tasks associated with those strategies. Given the highly dynamic operating environment of many enterprises, planning and scheduling must both be adaptive to unexpected events and tightly linked to ensure responsiveness and agility. This paper discusses key issues in integrating planning and scheduling technologies to support ongoing management of enterprise operations in dynamic environments. It outlines a series of models for integrating planning and scheduling technologies, and discusses their strengths and weaknesses with respect to continuous operations management for complex enterprises. The paper also describes a new research effort that seeks to develop a dynamic integrated planning and scheduling system that can support a broad range of interactions and control strategies for the domain of air operations.

BibTeX

@conference{Myers-1999-16722,
author = {Karen Myers and Stephen Smith},
title = {Issues in the Integration of Planning and Scheduling for Enterprise Control},
booktitle = {Proceedings of DARPA Symposium on Advances in Enterprise Control},
year = {1999},
month = {November},
}