The general job-shop scheduling problem is known to be extremely hard. We describe a GA approach which produces reasonably good results very quickly on standard benchmark job-shop scheduling problems, better than previous eeorts using genetic algorithms for this task, and comparable to existing conventional search-based methods. The representation used is a variant of one known to work moderate...

This work studies the performance of two Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) models to solve scheduling problems in a flexible job shop environment with recirculation and assembly using a due-date-based objective function. The models convey different approaches both in the modelling of time (discrete and continuous approaches) as well as in the assignment of jobs to machines. The comparison...

The multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling in a cellular manufacturing environment is challenging real-world problem. This recently introduced problem variant considers exceptional parts, intercellular moves, transportation times, sequence-dependent family setup and recirculation requiring minimization of makespan total tardiness, simultaneously. A previous study shows that the exact solv...

We consider several combinatorial optimization problems which combine the classic shop scheduling problems, namely open shop scheduling or job shop scheduling, and the shortest path problem. The objective of the obtained problem is to select a subset of jobs that forms a feasible solution of the shortest path problem, and to execute the selected jobs on the open (or job) shop machines to minimi...

A general model for job shop scheduling is described which applies to static, dynamic and non-deterministic production environments. Next, a Genetic Algorithm is presented which solves the job shop scheduling problem. This algorithm is tested in a dynamic environment under different workload situations. Thereby, a highly efficient decoding procedure is proposed which strongly improves the quali...

Flexible job shops are characterized by the existence of alternative –not necessarily identicalmachines, which permits parts to have different alternative routes in the shop. In a dynamic scheduling situation in which jobs continuously arrive over time, part routing rules are needed to deal with such routing flexibility as much as sequencing rules which define the order by which parts are admit...

Most of the research on job shop scheduling problem are concerned with minimization of a single objective. However, the real world applications of job shop scheduling problems are involved in optimizing multiple objectives. Therefore, in recent years ant colony optimization algorithms have been proposed to solve job shop scheduling problems with multiple objectives. In this paper, some recent m...