Similarity based ant-colony algorithm for permutation flowshop scheduling problems with total flowtime minimization.
Yi ZhangXiaoping LiQian WangJie ZhuPublished in: CSCWD (2009)
Keyphrases
- ant colony algorithm
- flowshop scheduling problems
- total flowtime
- flowshop scheduling
- permutation flowshop
- scheduling problem
- minimizing makespan
- flowshop
- global optimization
- improved ant colony algorithm
- ant colony
- mathematical model
- ant colony optimization
- objective function
- upper bound
- distribution network
- greedy algorithm
- special case
- fault diagnosis
- setup times
- parallel machines
- bp neural network
- precedence constraints
- metaheuristic
- single machine