This modelling approach was coined block planning which is a common term in industry for cyclical scheduling of product variants belonging to the same product family.
Dowsland and Thompson (2000) develop a hybrid algorithm based on tabu search and network programming to establish a non-cyclical scheduling system.
He hews to the same cyclical filmmaking schedule he's been on forever, churns out a picture a year, and, if he's lucky, the movie turns out half-decent.
The statistics, eight years in the making, do not lie: just 18 months ago, Quizlet served two million monthly uniques, and this school season, started with 10m monthlies, expected to increase soon given the cyclical and predictable schedule of the school year and the naturally viral loops of having kids in class use the same product.
The link scheduling period T l is approximately the inverse of the link rate c l, if the schedule is composed in a cyclical manner so that multiple schedulings of a link rate vector are as far removed in the scheduling frame as possible.
In a study reported by Burstein Bursteinn et al, 2008), levels of biomarkers of VEGFR inhibition (VEGF, sVEGFR2, sVEGFR3) were cyclical and coincident with the schedule of sunitinib used in the study (4 weeks on, 2 weeks off).
These include cyclical capacity shortages (notorious in memory chips), technology schedule slippages (for new CPUs, for example), and regional crises affecting suppliers (such as earthquakes).
That means the effects of predictable seasonal events like weather changes, major holidays and school schedules are removed (through a statistical technique) so that cyclical, underlying trends can be better observed.
While the cyclical phase shift improves the performance of the link with a small amount of scheduled TTIs, after OLLA corrects the offset, the system without the cyclical phase shift performs better.
It noted the cyclical swings in thought between rigid regimentation of feedings and allowing too much freedom in a self-demand schedule.
