Dustin Moreira Simoes

Mr. Dustin Moreira Simoes

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1Year (2026-Present)

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23 July 2026 in Applied Sciences
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DSDustin Moreira Simoes
Dustin Moreira Simoes
MBMarvin Brune
Marvin Brune
MUMehmet Ulrich
Mehmet Ulrich
Hasan TercanHasan Tercan
Hasan Tercan
Tobias MeisenTobias Meisen
Tobias Meisen
Rising energy costs and the increasing share of renewable generation create incentives to align production schedules with dynamic electricity prices and on-site solar generation. We address the resulting Multi-Objective Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem by proposing a deep reinforcement learning framework that jointly minimizes makespan and energy cost. A single preference-conditioned policy approximates the Pareto front at inference time, eliminating the need to train separate models for different objective weightings. The agent acts as a hyper-heuristic, selecting among heuristic actions at each decision point, including strategies that intentionally delay operations to exploit periods of lower electricity prices or higher solar generation. Preferences are integrated throughout the network via Feature-wise Linear Modulation, while a dual-critic architecture and a diversity loss preserve preference-specific policy behaviors. We evaluate the approach against NSGA-II and Joined Heuristics on synthetic instances ranging from 10×5×5 to 15×15×15 jobs, operations per job, and machines using normalized hypervolume and inverted generational distance. While NSGA-II performs best on the smallest instances, the proposed approach becomes increasingly competitive as problem size grows and achieves the best results on the largest evaluated instances. These findings indicate promising scalability within the investigated problem range.