The cyclic compact open-shop scheduling problem

The cyclic compact open-shop scheduling problem

We consider a variation of the classical nonpreemptive open-shop scheduling problem. For the normal open shop, finding whether a schedule exists in T time units is NP-complete [2]. The main difference with the classical model is that we will consider so-called periodical or cyclic schedules; this means that the schedule obtained is repeated periodically. If the length of a period is k time unit...

Cat swarm optimization for solving the open shop scheduling problem

This paper aims to prove the efficiency of an adapted computationally intelligence-based behavior of cats called the cat swarm optimization algorithm, that solves the open shop scheduling problem, classified as NP-hard which its importance appears in several industrial and manufacturing applications. The cat swarm optimization algorithm was applied to solve some benchmark instances from the lit...

Generalized Cyclic Open Shop Scheduling and a Hybrid Algorithm

In this paper, we first introduce a generalized version of open shop scheduling (OSS), called generalized cyclic open shop scheduling (GCOSS) and then develop a hybrid method of metaheuristic to solve this problem. Open shop scheduling is concerned with processing n jobs on m machines, where each job has exactly m operations and operation i of each job has to be processed on machine i . However...

Parallel tabu search for the cyclic job shop scheduling problem

In this paper, we consider a cyclic job shop problem, consisting of production of a certain set of elements at fixed intervals. Optimization of the process is reduced to a minimization of a cycle time, i.e. the time, after which the next batch of the same elements may be produced. We introduce a new parallel method for the cost function calculation. The parallelization is not trivial and cannot...

Parallel metaheuristics for the cyclic flow shop scheduling problem