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Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem Using an Improved Ant Colony Optimization
Joint Authors
Wang, Lei
Cai, Jingcao
Li, Ming
Liu, Zhihu
Source
Issue
Vol. 2017, Issue 2017 (31 Dec. 2017), pp.1-11, 11 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2017-01-26
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
11
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
As an extension of the classical job shop scheduling problem, the flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) plays an important role in real production systems.
In FJSP, an operation is allowed to be processed on more than one alternative machine.
It has been proven to be a strongly NP-hard problem.
Ant colony optimization (ACO) has been proven to be an efficient approach for dealing with FJSP.
However, the basic ACO has two main disadvantages including low computational efficiency and local optimum.
In order to overcome these two disadvantages, an improved ant colony optimization (IACO) is proposed to optimize the makespan for FJSP.
The following aspects are done on our improved ant colony optimization algorithm: select machine rule problems, initialize uniform distributed mechanism for ants, change pheromone’s guiding mechanism, select node method, and update pheromone’s mechanism.
An actual production instance and two sets of well-known benchmark instances are tested and comparisons with some other approaches verify the effectiveness of the proposed IACO.
The results reveal that our proposed IACO can provide better solution in a reasonable computational time.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Wang, Lei& Cai, Jingcao& Li, Ming& Liu, Zhihu. 2017. Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem Using an Improved Ant Colony Optimization. Scientific Programming،Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1203487
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Wang, Lei…[et al.]. Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem Using an Improved Ant Colony Optimization. Scientific Programming No. 2017 (2017), pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1203487
American Medical Association (AMA)
Wang, Lei& Cai, Jingcao& Li, Ming& Liu, Zhihu. Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem Using an Improved Ant Colony Optimization. Scientific Programming. 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1203487
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1203487