An evolutionary approach for solving the job shop scheduling problem in a service industry

In this paper, an evolutionary-based approach based on the discrete particle swarm optimization (DPSO) algorithm is developed for finding the optimum schedule of a registration problem in a university. Minimizing the makespan, which is the total length of the schedule, in a real-world case study is...

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Main Authors: Milad Yousefi, Moslem Yousefi, Danial Hooshyar, Jefferson Ataide de Souza Oliveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Ahmad Dahlan 2015-03-01
Series:IJAIN (International Journal of Advances in Intelligent Informatics)
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Online Access:http://ijain.org/index.php/IJAIN/article/view/5
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Summary:In this paper, an evolutionary-based approach based on the discrete particle swarm optimization (DPSO) algorithm is developed for finding the optimum schedule of a registration problem in a university. Minimizing the makespan, which is the total length of the schedule, in a real-world case study is considered as the target function. Since the selected case study has the characteristics of job shop scheduling problem (JSSP), it is categorized as a NP-hard problem which makes it difficult to be solved by conventional mathematical approaches in relatively short computation time.
ISSN:2442-6571
2548-3161