An Efficient Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Multiobjective Flow Shop Scheduling Problem

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  • Ahmad Rabanimotlagh
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In this paper an ant colony optimization algorithm is developed to solve the permutation flow shop scheduling problem. In the permutation flow shop scheduling problem which has been vastly studied in the literature, there are a set of machines and a set of jobs. All the jobs are processed on all the machines and the sequence of jobs being processed is the same on all the machines. Here this problem is optimized considering two criteria, makespan and total flow time. Then the results are compared with the ones obtained by previously developed algorithms. Finally it is visible that our proposed approach performs best among all other algorithms in the literature. Keywords—Scheduling, Flow shop, Ant colony optimization, Makespan, Flow time

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تاریخ انتشار 2012