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CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
An ant system with steps counter for the job shop scheduling problem
In this paper, we present an ant system algorithm variant designed to solve the job shop scheduling problem. The proposed approach is based on a recent biological study which showe...
Emanuel Tellez-Emiquez, Efrén Mezura-Montes...
AIPS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Exploiting the Power of Local Search in a Branch and Bound Algorithm for Job Shop Scheduling
This paper presents three techniques for using an iterated local search algorithm to improve the performance of a state-of-the-art branch and bound algorithm for job shop scheduli...
Matthew J. Streeter, Stephen F. Smith
AAAI
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Beyond Contention: Extending Texture-Based Scheduling Heuristics
In order to apply texture measurement based heuristic commitment techniques beyond the unary capacity resource constraints of job shop scheduling, we extend the contention texture...
J. Christopher Beck, Andrew J. Davenport, Edward M...
EPS
1997
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Investigating Parallel Genetic Algorithms on Job Shop Scheduling Problems
This paper describes a GA for job shop scheduling problems. Using the Giffler and Thompson algorithm, we created two new operators, THX crossover and mutation, which better trans...
Shyh-Chang Lin, Erik D. Goodman, William F. Punch ...
CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Modified genetic algorithm for job-shop scheduling: A gap utilization technique
—The Job-Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) is one of the most critical combinatorial optimization problems. The objective of JSSP in this research is to minimize the makespan. In th...
S. M. Kamrul Hasan, Ruhul A. Sarker, David Cornfor...