| Article ID: | iaor1999174 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 93 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 61 |
| End Page Number: | 67 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1996 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Ben-Daya M., Al-Fawzan M. |
| Keywords: | optimization: simulated annealing |
In this paper we propose a simulated annealing approach for solving the single machine mean tardiness scheduling problem. The results of a simulation experiment indicate that the proposed method provides much better solutions than two heuristics that gave good results in previous studies. More importantly, the solutions obtained are within less than 1% of optimal solutions.