Title
Fast heuristics for minimizing the makespan in non-permutation flow shops
Date Issued
01 December 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
We introduce a new permutation representation for non-permutation schedules, and show how the acceleration technique of Taillard can be extended to it. We propose three new heuristics for the non-permutation flow shop scheduling problem with makespan minimization: a constructive heuristic with the same time complexity as the well-known NEH heuristic, a non-permutation insertion local search with a time complexity O(n2m) for evaluating a neighbourhood on n jobs and m machines, the same as for the permutation insertion local search, and a reduced-neighbourhood best-improvement non-permutation local search with a time complexity of O(nm) per neighbourhood. These heuristics are combined into iterated greedy algorithms for the permutation and non-permutation flow shop scheduling problem. In extensive computational experiments we find that our iterated greedy algorithms produce better non-permutation schedules than other methods for the permutation and non-permutation flow shop scheduling problem, in the same computational time.
Start page
230
End page
243
Volume
100
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación
Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85051274224
Source
Computers and Operations Research
ISSN of the container
03050548
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus