Ant colony optimization for multi-objective flow shop scheduling problem

YAĞMAHAN B., Yenisey M. M.

COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, cilt.54, sa.3, ss.411-420, 2008 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 54 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2008
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.cie.2007.08.003
  • Dergi Adı: COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.411-420
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Flow shop scheduling problem consists of scheduling given jobs with same order at all machines. The job can be processed on at most one machine; meanwhile one machine can process at most one job. The most common objective for this problem is makespan. However, multi-objective approach for scheduling to reduce the total scheduling cost is important. Hence, in this study, we consider the flow shop scheduling problem with multi-objectives of makespan, total flow time and total machine idle time. Ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm is proposed to solve this problem which is known as NP-hard type. The proposed algorithm is compared with solution performance obtained by the existing multi-objective heuristics. As a result, computational results show that proposed algorithm is more effective and better than other methods compared. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.