... rules (Nakasuka and Yoshida, 1992; Shaw et al., 1992; Aydin and Oztemel, 2000; Jahangirian and Conroy, 2000; Jeong, 2000; Subramaniam et al., 200 0a) The idea of this approach is to dynamically switch ... Flowchart for proactive – reactive scheduling technique 185 xiv LIST OF NOTATIONS AHP Analytic Hierarchy Process ANOM Analysis of Means ANOVA Analysis of Variance BD Machine Breakdown BN Bayesian ... algorithm (Jahangirian and Conroy, 2000; Jeong, 2000; Tay and Ho, 2008), simulated annealing (Jeong, 2000), Analytic Hierarchy Process (Subramaniam et al., 200 0a) , intelligent agent (Nakasuka...