An adaptive learning approach for no-wait flowshop scheduling problems to minimize makespan

Minimizing makespan for a no-wait flowshop using genetic algorithm

This paper explains minimization of makespan or total completion time for n-jobs, m-machine, no-wait flowshop problem (NW-FSSP). A spread sheet based general purpose genetic algorithm is proposed for the NW-FSSP. The example analysis shows that the proposed approach produces results are comparable to the previous approaches cited in the literature. Additionally, it is demonstrated that the curr...

A Simple No - Wait Flowshop Scheduling Heuristicfor

َA Multi-objective simulated annealing algorithm to solving flexible no-wait flowshop scheduling problems with transportation times

This paper deals with a bi-objective hybrid no-wait flowshop scheduling problem minimizing the makespan and total weighted tardiness, in which we consider transportation times between stages. Obtaining an optimal solution for this type of complex, large-sized problem in reasonable computational time by using traditional approaches and optimization tools is extremely difficult. This paper presen...

No-wait flexible flowshop scheduling with no-idle machines

This paper considers a two-stage flexible flowshop scheduling problem with no waiting time between two sequential operations of a job and no idle time between two consecutive processed jobs on machines of the second stage. We show its complexity and present a heuristic algorithm with asymptotically tight error bounds. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

New hard benchmark for flowshop scheduling problems minimising makespan

In this work a new benchmark of hard instances for the permutation flowshop scheduling problem with the objective of minimising the makespan is proposed. The new benchmark consists of 240 large instances and 240 small instances with up to 800 jobs and 60 machines. One of the objectives of the work is to generate a benchmark which satisfies the desired characteristics of any benchmark: comprehen...