Minimizing makespan in a blocking flowshop using a revised artificial immune system algorithm

Shih-Wei Lin and Kuo-Ching Ying

Omega, 2013, vol. 41, issue 2, 383-389

Abstract: The blocking flowshop scheduling problem has a strong industrial background but is under-represented in the research literature. In this study, a revised artificial immune system (RAIS) algorithm based on the features of artificial immune systems and the annealing process of simulated annealing algorithms was presented to minimize the makespan in a blocking flowshop. To validate the performance of the proposed RAIS algorithm, computational experiments and comparisons were conducted on the well-known benchmark problems of Taillard used in earlier studies. The experimental results show that the proposed RAIS algorithm outperforms the state-of-art algorithms on the same benchmark problem data set.

Keywords: Scheduling; Blocking flowshop; Makespan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2012.03.006

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