Title
On Permutation Representations for Scheduling Problems
Abstract
In this paper we concentrate on job shop scheduling as a representative of constrained combinatorial problems. We introduce a new permutation representation for this problem. Three crossover operators, different in tending to preserve the relative order, the absolute order, and the position in the permutation, are defined. By experiment we observe the strongest phenotypical correlation between parents and offspring when respecting the absolute order. It is shown that a genetic algorithm using an operator which preserves the absolute order also obtains a superior solution quality.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1007/3-540-61723-X_995
PPSN
Keywords
Field
DocType
scheduling problems,permutation representations,scheduling problem,genetic algorithm,job shop scheduling
Mathematical optimization,Crossover,Job shop scheduling,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Flow shop scheduling,Permutation,Nurse scheduling problem,Operator (computer programming),Genetic algorithm
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
3-540-61723-X
67
4.94
References 
Authors
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian Bierwirth158638.75
Dirk C. Mattfeld228326.47
Herbert Kopfer349960.75