Bi‐criteria minimization for the permutation flowshop scheduling problem with machine‐based learning effects

Bi‐criteria minimization for the permutation flowshop scheduling problem with machine‐based learning effects

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Article ID: iaor20124246
Volume: 63
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 302
End Page Number: 312
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Journal: Computers & Industrial Engineering
Authors: ,
Keywords: combinatorial optimization, manufacturing industries
Abstract:

In traditional scheduling problems, the processing time for the given job is assumed to be a constant regardless of whether the job is scheduled earlier or later. However, the phenomenon named ‘learning effect’ has extensively been studied recently, in which job processing times decline as workers gain more experience. This paper discusses a bi‐criteria scheduling problem in an m‐machine permutation flowshop environment with varied learning effects on different machines. The objective of this paper is to minimize the weighted sum of the total completion time and the makespan. A dominance criterion and a lower bound are proposed to accelerate the branch‐and‐bound algorithm for deriving the optimal solution. In addition, the near‐optimal solutions are derived by adapting two well‐known heuristic algorithms. The computational experiments reveal that the proposed branch‐and‐bound algorithm can effectively deal with problems with up to 16 jobs, and the proposed heuristic algorithms can yield accurate near‐optimal solutions.

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