Title | ||
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An improved migrating birds optimization for an integrated lot-streaming flow shop scheduling problem. |
Abstract | ||
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Lot-streaming is an effective technology to enhance the production efficiency by splitting a job or a lot into several sublots. It is commonly assumed that lot-splitting (i.e. job-splitting) is specified in advance and fixed during the optimization procedure in recent studies on lot-streaming flow shop scheduling problems. In many real-world production processes, however, it is not easy to determine the optimal lot-splitting beforehand. Therefore, in this paper we consider an integrated lot-streaming flow shop scheduling problem in which lot-splitting and job scheduling are needed to be optimized simultaneously. We provide a mathematical model for the problem and present an improved migrating birds optimization (IMMBO) to minimize the maximum completion time or makespan. In the IMMBO algorithm, a harmony search based scheme is designed to construct neighborhood of solutions, which makes good use of optimization information from the population and can tune the search scope adaptively. Moreover, a leaping mechanism is introduced to avoid being trapped in the local optimum. Extensive numerical simulations are conducted and comparisons with other state-of-the-art algorithms verify the effectiveness of the proposed IMMBO algorithm. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2018 | 10.1016/j.swevo.2017.06.003 | Swarm and Evolutionary Computation |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Migrating birds optimization,Meta-heuristics,Lot-streaming,Flow shop,Harmony search | Population,Mathematical optimization,Production efficiency,Job shop scheduling,Local optimum,Computer science,Flow shop scheduling,Harmony search,Job scheduler,Metaheuristic | Journal |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
38 | 2210-6502 | 10 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.46 | 27 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Tao Meng | 1 | 39 | 2.52 |
Quan-Ke Pan | 2 | 59 | 6.04 |
Junqing Li | 3 | 462 | 42.69 |
Hong-yan Sang | 4 | 165 | 11.18 |