New block properties for the permutation flow shop problem with application in tabu search

J Grabowski () and J Pempera
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J Grabowski: Wroclaw University of Technology
J Pempera: Wroclaw University of Technology

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2001, vol. 52, issue 2, 210-220

Abstract: Abstract This paper deals with the classic flow-shop scheduling problem with the make-span criterion. Some new properties of the problem associated with the so-called blocks have been presented and discussed. The properties allow us to skip some non-perspective solutions during the search of the solution space. Applied to local search algorithms, they result in a significant reduction of neighbourhood size and quickly direct the search trajectory to promising regions of the solution space. The implementation of the proposed properties in a tabu search algorithm is also presented. Computational experiments (up to 500 jobs and 20 machines) are given and compared with the results yielded by the best known algorithms.

Keywords: sequencing; heuristics; tabu search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601055

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