International Journal of Man-Machine Studies - Knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems, part 1. Based on an AAAI work
Groupware: some issues and experiences
Communications of the ACM
A practical use of Jackson's preemptive schedule for solving the job shop problem
Annals of Operations Research
Beyond the repertory grid: new approaches to constructivist knowledge acquisition tool development
Knowledge acquisition as modeling
Knowledge-Based Approaches for Scheduling Problems: A Survey
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Scheduling: Theory, Algorithms, and Systems
Scheduling: Theory, Algorithms, and Systems
Implementation issues for an interactive evolutionary computation system
Proceedings of the 9th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation
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For solving scheduling problems in an aircraft manufacturing workshop, these authors propose a human-machine cooperative framework where computers check the consistency of thousands of constraints and humans select relevant choices The flanged-element manufacturing workshop at Dassault Aviation's plant in Argenteuil, France, uses a number of short-run manufacturing cycles to produce small quantities of numerous aircraft structural parts. The many manual finishing operations, components, and manufacturing processes involved place a premium on management flexibility and quick reactions for meeting ever-changing production demands. Human operators, therefore, must assume a pivotal role in the workshop's decision-making processes.This case study reports on our efforts to converge a top-down approach to functional design and a bottom-up approach to cognitive design of human-computer interactions to increase efficiency at the workshop. The functional design effort relies on a constraint-reasoning process to provide a set of decision-making solutions, while the cognitive design effort comprises a knowledge-acquisition phase. We combined these concepts to produce a highly interactive mock-up system, programmed with a constraint logic programming language, that lets users easily modify previous choices.The final system this article describes is still under specification, as part of the ongoing reorganization of the shop. The mock-up design, supported by the French Ministry of Research, has been developed to investigate new technological possibilities in the domain of cooperative human-machine scheduling, but not to be integrated in a Dassault industrial site. If integrated, this mock-up would enable operators to react immediately to perturbations. This work could also migrate to other manufacturing operations, such as cutting operations in the clothing industry, which present similar constraints.