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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
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DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2023.2230317
Keywords
Cloud manufacturing; service composition; resource allocation; online packing; re-entrant service
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Cloud manufacturing is a promising paradigm for manufacturing, but existing studies ignore its dynamic nature and the complexity of revenue management caused by re-entrant services.
Cloud manufacturing (CMfg) emerges as a promising manufacturing paradigm, where service composition (SC) is a critical process concentrating on matching tasks and services. Existing studies usually ignore the dynamic nature of the CMfg environment, where task information is not always known before. Moreover, CMfg services are re-entrant, i.e. after being occupied for a period of service time, these services re-enter the CMfg platform (i.e. be available again). Re-entrant services significantly complicate CMfg platform revenue management. In this regard, we study the dynamic SC problem of CMfg (CMfg-DSC) incorporating re-entrant services within an online setting for the first time. CMfg-DSC is reformulated as an online packing problem. If a task is accepted, each requested service will be occupied until service time terminates. We propose online policies with performance guarantees, namely, static online packing policy (Static), opportunity-cost-based policy (Oppo), and dual-based policy with/without known distribution (Dual-k & Dual-u). Experiment results show that (1) Static is applicable for most cases; (2) Oppo has the potential for decent performance but at the cost of time; (3) Dual-u is reliable when only past observations are available; (4) Dual-k performs well given abundant service provision, but its performance would deteriorate if we lower the reward-cost threshold.
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