Nature-Inspired Metaheuristics for Two-Agent Scheduling with Due Date and Release Time

Joint Authors

Li, Hongwei
Gajpal, Yuvraj
Surti, Chirag
Cai, Dongliang
Bhardwaj, Amit Kumar

Source

Complexity

Issue

Vol. 2020, Issue 2020 (31 Dec. 2020), pp.1-13, 13 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2020-12-29

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

13

Main Subjects

Philosophy

Abstract EN

This paper delves into a two-agent scheduling problem in which two agents are competing for a single resource.

Each agent has a set of jobs to be processed by a single machine.

The processing time, release time, weight, and the due dates of each job are known in advance.

Both agents have their objectives, which are conflicting in nature.

The first agent tries to minimize the total completion time, while the second agent tries to minimize the number of tardy jobs.

The two agents’ scheduling problem, an NP-hard problem, has a wide variety of applications ranging from the manufacturing industry to the cloud computing service provider.

Due to the wide applicability, each variation of the problem requires a different algorithm, adapted according to the user’s requirements.

This paper provides mathematical models, heuristic algorithms, and two nature-based metaheuristic algorithms to solve the problem.

The algorithm’s performance was gauged against the optimal solution obtained from the AMPL-CPLEX solver for both solution quality and computational time.

The outlined metaheuristics produce a solution that is comparable with a short computational time.

The proposed metaheuristics even have a better solution than the CPLEX solver for medium-size problems, whereas the computation times are much less than the CPLEX solvers.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Li, Hongwei& Gajpal, Yuvraj& Surti, Chirag& Cai, Dongliang& Bhardwaj, Amit Kumar. 2020. Nature-Inspired Metaheuristics for Two-Agent Scheduling with Due Date and Release Time. Complexity،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1139897

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Li, Hongwei…[et al.]. Nature-Inspired Metaheuristics for Two-Agent Scheduling with Due Date and Release Time. Complexity No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1139897

American Medical Association (AMA)

Li, Hongwei& Gajpal, Yuvraj& Surti, Chirag& Cai, Dongliang& Bhardwaj, Amit Kumar. Nature-Inspired Metaheuristics for Two-Agent Scheduling with Due Date and Release Time. Complexity. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1139897

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-1139897