A model for job-shop problem

Abstract

In this paper, we present a timed model called Resources Allocation Timed Automata (RATA), expressing parallel behaviors in natural way and supporting at the same time explicit action duration and shared resources. We show how the classical job-shop scheduling problem can be modeled naturally in RATA model, we present also two algorithms for finding the shortest paths in RATA model for the problem of job-shop and test their implementation.