A multipopulation memetic model for the maintenance scheduling

The thermal generator maintenance scheduling problem has been tackled by a variety of traditional optimisation techniques over the years. This paper proposes a method to solve the maintenance scheduling problem, called parallel co-operating memetic algorithm (PARME). In the proposed model used a variety of selection mechanism, operators, communication methods, local search procedures are applied to each solution generated by genetic operators, and parameters as it explained in the sequel. The PARME alone have been found to produce good quality results. High performance of our approach is demonstrated by applying it to maintenance scheduling problem.