Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm for Flowtime Minimisation in No-Wait Flowshop Scheduling

This research presents a novel approach to solve m-machine no-wait flowshop scheduling problem. A continuous flowshop problem with total flowtime as criterion is considered applying a hybrid evolutionary algorithm. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated and the results are compared with the best known in the literature. Experimental tests show the superiority of the evolutionary hybrid regarding the solution quality.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: MICAI
• Authors: Geraldo Ribeiro Filho, Marcelo Seido Nagano, Luiz Antonio Nogueira Lorena
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Continuous flowshop Problem, Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm, MICAI 2007, flowshop Scheduling Problem