A promising genetic algorithm approach to job-shop scheduling, rescheduling, and open-shop scheduling problems:

Abstract: "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 efforts using genetic algorithms for this task, and comparable...

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Main Authors: Fang, Hsiao-Lan (Author), Ross, Peter (Author), Corne, Dave (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh 1993
Series:University <Edinburgh> / Department of Artificial Intelligence: DAI research paper 623
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Summary:Abstract: "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 efforts 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 moderately well for the traveling salesman problem. It has the considerable merit that crossover will always produce legal schedules. A novel method for performance enhancement is examined based on dynamic sampling of the convergence rates in different parts of the genome. Our approach also promises to effectively address the open-shop scheduling problem and the job-shop rescheduling problem."
Physical Description:9 S.

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