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Jobshop scheduling - Generating start solutions via parallel computation

Description
The job shop problem is solved by sequentially sequencing tasks on a single machine and then loading this initial schedule as an initial integer solution (jobshopas.mos). A parallel version of the algorithm is also presented. In the parallel version, the single machine sequencing models are solved concurrently, exchanging data in memory with the parent model.
  1. Implementation as a single model (jobshopasc.mos) that clones itself to generate the submodels in order to work with shared data structures between the parent and its submodels.
  2. Implementation as a main model (jobshopasp.mos) starting several submodels (jobseq.mos) in parallel. Data exchange via shmem (shared memory blocks from/to which parent model and submodels copy their data).


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jobshopasp.mos

(!******************************************************
   Mosel Example Problems
   ======================

   file jobshopasp.mos
   ```````````````````
   Job shop production planning, 
   second, generic formulation.`
   -- Parallel version --

   *** ATTENTION: This model will return an error if no  ***
   *** sufficient number of Xpress licences is available ***
   
   (c) 2013 Fair Isaac Corporation
       author: S. Heipcke, Jan. 2013, rev. Sep. 2021
*******************************************************!)

model "B-3 Job shop (2) Par"
 uses "mmxprs", "mmjobs", "mmsystem"

 parameters
  DATAFILE = "mt10.dat"                      ! mt06.dat : Fisher and Thompson 6x6 instance

  ALG = 1      ! 0: Default solving, 1: Add partial solution,
               ! 2: Augment Jobshop problem with one sequencing problem
 end-parameters


 declarations
  NBJOBS: integer                            ! Number of jobs
  NBRES: integer                             ! Number of resources
 end-declarations

 initializations from DATAFILE
  NBJOBS NBRES
 end-initializations

 declarations
  JOBS = 1..NBJOBS                           ! Set of jobs
  TASKS = 1..NBRES                           ! Set of tasks (one per machine)
  TASKSM1 = 1..NBRES-1                       ! Set of tasks without last
  RESOURCES = 0..NBRES-1                     ! Set of resources
  taskUse: array(JOBS,TASKS) of integer      ! Resource use of tasks
  DUR: array(JOBS,TASKS) of integer          ! Durations of tasks
  RESIND: array(RESOURCES,JOBS) of integer   ! Task index per resource
  BIGM: integer
  MAXDUR: array(RESOURCES) of integer

  cutoff: real  
  bbindex: integer
 end-declarations

 initializations from DATAFILE
  taskUse DUR as "taskDuration"
 end-initializations 

 forall(m in RESOURCES,j in JOBS,t in TASKS | taskUse(j,t) = m) RESIND(m,j):=t

 BIGM:=sum(j in JOBS,t in TASKS) DUR(j,t)    ! Some (sufficiently) large value
 forall(m in RESOURCES) MAXDUR(m):=sum(j in JOBS) DUR(j,RESIND(m,j))

 declarations   
  start: array(JOBS,TASKS) of mpvar          ! Start times of tasks
  comp: array(JOBS,TASKS) of mpvar           ! Completion times of tasks
  makespan: mpvar                            ! Schedule completion time
  y: dynamic array(RESOURCES,JOBS,JOBS) of mpvar  ! Disjunction variables

  heursol: dynamic array(set of mpvar) of real  
  rank: array(JOBS,JOBS) of mpvar            ! =1 if job j at position k
  jcomp,tstart: array(JOBS) of mpvar         ! Start time of job at position k
  SeqMod: array(RESOURCES) of Model          ! Models
  NOSOL=2                                    ! "No sol found" event
  NEWSOL=3                                   ! "Solution found" event
  pos: array(JOBS) of integer                ! Subproblem solution
  Makespan: real                             ! Subproblem makespan
 end-declarations


! **** Create disjunctive constraints ****
 procedure disjunctiveconstraints(m:integer)
   forall(i,j in JOBS | i<j) do
     create(y(m,i,j))
     y(m,i,j) is_binary               !=1 if i>>j, =0 if i<<j
     start(i,RESIND(m,i))+DUR(i,RESIND(m,i)) <= 
       start(j,RESIND(m,j))+BIGM*y(m,i,j)
     start(j,RESIND(m,j))+DUR(j,RESIND(m,j)) <=
       start(i,RESIND(m,i))+BIGM*(1-y(m,i,j))
    end-do
 end-procedure  


! **** Single machine sequencing problem ****
 procedure sequencemachine(m:integer)
  ! One job per position
   forall(k in JOBS) sum(j in JOBS) rank(j,k) = 1

  ! One position per job
   forall(j in JOBS) sum(k in JOBS) rank(j,k) = 1

  ! Sequence of jobs
   forall(k in 1..NBJOBS-1)
     tstart(k+1) >= 
       tstart(k) + sum(j in JOBS) DUR(j,RESIND(m,j))*rank(j,k)

  ! Start times (release date = min total duration for preceding tasks)
   forall(j in JOBS) REL(j):= sum(t in 1..RESIND(m,j)-1) DUR(j,t)
   forall(j in JOBS) DURSUCC(j):= sum(t in RESIND(m,j)+1..NBRES) DUR(j,t)

   forall(k in JOBS) tstart(k) >= sum(j in JOBS) REL(j)*rank(j,k)

  ! Completion times
   forall(k in JOBS) jcomp(k) = 
     tstart(k) + sum(j in JOBS) (DUR(j,RESIND(m,j))+DURSUCC(j))*rank(j,k)

   forall(j,k in JOBS) rank(j,k) is_binary 
 
  ! Objective function: minimize latest completion time
   forall(k in JOBS) makespan >= jcomp(k)
 end-procedure


! **** Status of loaded solutions ****
 public procedure solnotify(id:string, status:integer)
   writeln_("Optimiser loaded solution ",id," status=",status)
 end-procedure


! **** Main problem: Job-shop scheduling problem ****

! Precedence constraints between last task of every job and makespan
 forall(j in JOBS) makespan >= start(j,NBRES) + DUR(j,NBRES) 

! Precedence constraints between the tasks of every job
 forall(j in JOBS,t in TASKSM1)
   start(j,t) + DUR(j,t) <= start(j,t+1)

! Disjunctions
 forall(r in RESOURCES) disjunctiveconstraints(r)

! Linking start and completion times
 forall(j in JOBS,t in TASKS) start(j,t)+DUR(j,t) = comp(j,t)

! Bound on latest completion time
 makespan <= BIGM

 starttime:=gettime

 if ALG>0 then

 ! Compile submodel and prepare submodel data
   if compile("jobseq.mos")<>0 then exit(1); end-if
   initializations to "bin:shmem:jsdata"
     DUR RESIND MAXDUR
   end-initializations

 ! Solve the single machine sequencing problems
   forall(m in RESOURCES) do
     load(SeqMod(m), "jobseq.bim")
     SeqMod(m).uid:= m
     setworkdir(SeqMod(m), ".")
     run(SeqMod(m), "MACH="+m +",NBJOBS="+NBJOBS +",NBRES="+NBRES +
         ",DATAFILE=bin:shmem:jsdata,MAXTHRD="+1)
   end-do
   tct:=0
   while (tct<NBRES) do
     wait                                  ! Wait for the next event
     Msg:= getnextevent                    ! Get the event
     mid:= Msg.fromuid                     ! Get model number of sender
     if getclass(Msg)=NEWSOL then          ! Get the event class
       initializations from "bin:shmem:sol"+mid
         pos  Makespan
       end-initializations
       if Makespan>cutoff then 
         cutoff:= Makespan; 
         bbindex:=mid
       end-if
       writeln_("*** (", gettime-starttime, "s) Machine ", mid, ": ", Makespan)

       forall(i,j in JOBS | i<j ) heursol(y(mid,i,j)):= if(pos(i)<pos(j), 0, 1)
       loadprob(makespan)

       if ALG=1 then
         id:="mach"+mid
         addmipsol(id,heursol)             ! Load the heuristic solution
         writeln_("Loaded solution Id: ",id)
         setcallback(XPRS_CB_SOLNOTIFY,"solnotify")
       end-if
       delcell(heursol)                    ! Delete saved solution values
       fdelete("bin:shmem:sol"+mid)
     elif getclass(Msg)=NOSOL then
       writeln_("Subproblem ", mid, " has no solution. Stopping")
       exit(1)
     else
       tct+=1
       unload(SeqMod(mid))                 ! Delete subproblem
     end-if
   end-do
      
   writeln_("(", gettime-starttime, "s) Best lower bound: ", cutoff)
  ! makespan >= cutoff

   if ALG=2 then
     MD:=max(m in RESOURCES) MAXDUR(m)
     forall(m in RESOURCES) bbindex:=if(MAXDUR(m)=MD, m, bbindex)
     writeln_("Bottelneck machine: ", bbindex)
  
   ! Add the subproblem that has provided the largest lower bound
     sequencemachine(bbindex)

   ! Connect subproblem to main problem
     forall(j in JOBS) 1 + sum(i in JOBS | i<j) (1-y(bbindex,i,j)) +
      sum(i in JOBS | i>j) y(bbindex,j,i) = sum(k in JOBS) k*rank(j,k)
   end-if
   
   if ALG=1 then
    ! Re-inforce use of user solutions by local search MIP heuristics
     setparam("XPRS_USERSOLHEURISTIC",3)
   end-if
 end-if   ! ALG>0

 setparam("XPRS_VERBOSE", true)
 setparam("XPRS_SOLTIMELIMIT", 5)

! Solve the problem: minimize latest completion time
 minimize(makespan)

! Solution printing

 writeln_("(", gettime-starttime, "s) Total completion time: ", getobjval)
 forall(j in JOBS) write(strfmt(j,8))
 writeln
 forall(m in RESOURCES) do
   write(strfmt((m+1),-3))
   forall(j in JOBS)
     if(DUR(j,RESIND(m,j))>0) then
      write(strfmt(getsol(start(j,RESIND(m,j))),4), "-", 
          strfmt(getsol(start(j,RESIND(m,j)))+DUR(j,RESIND(m,j)),3))
     else
      write(strfmt(" ",6))
     end-if 
   writeln
 end-do

end-model 

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