Abstract
Modern decision support systems have many applications, including assistance in scheduling tasks. Biosystems engineering combines engineering sciences and physical sciences in order to understand and improve biological systems in agriculture, food production, environment, etc. The work reviews the decision support systems in the aspect of scheduling tasks in the field of biosystems engineering. The analysis was based on documents (articles and proceedings paper) indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS-CC) database from 1945-2018. The search has been limited to the category of WoS-CC related to agriculture, water resources, food processing, horticulture and forestry. The main research topics, areas of application and methods used were determined. In the analyzed documents, task scheduling was mainly used in irrigation and harvest scheduling. Simple and advanced optimization tools were used.
Highlights
Managing tasks is scheduling task in production management
157 documents were analysed in total
The authors come from USA (38 documents), Spain (15 documents), Canada (14 dokuments) and China (14 documents)
Summary
Managing tasks is scheduling task in production management. A properly prepared schedule significantly reduces uncertainty in decision-making and ensures production stability. The complexity of production processes and the variability of factors (eg machine failures, employee absences, etc.) have a significant impact on the scheduling process [1]. Decision Support Systems (DSS) are very often used. The scheduling support module is one of the parts of the entire extended system. Sprague and Carlson concluded "DSS comprise a class of information system that draws on transaction processing systems and interacts with the other parts of the overall information system to support the decision-making activities of managers and other knowledge workers in organizations"[2]
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