Article ID: | iaor1995959 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 85 |
End Page Number: | 99 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1995 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Rubin Paul A., Ragatz Gary L. |
Keywords: | heuristics |
Work on scheduling in the presence of sequence dependent setup times has generally focused on minimizing the total setup time (or cost) or minimizing the makespan of a set of jobs. The authors explore the problem of sequencing to minimize the total tardiness of a set of jobs in a single-stage pocess where setup times are sequence dependent. In particular, they examine the efficacy of using genetic search to develop near optimal schedules in this environment.