Article ID: | iaor2000146 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 86 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 441 |
End Page Number: | 453 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1999 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Mattfeld Dirk C., Bierwirth Christian, Kopfer Herbert |
Keywords: | job shop |
A computational study for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem is presented. Thereby, emphasis is put on the structure of the search space as it appears for local search. A statistical analysis of the search space reveals the impact of inherent properties of the problem on local search based heuristics.