Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem Using an Improved Ant Colony Optimization

As an extension of the classical job shop scheduling problem, the flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) plays an important role in real production systems. In FJSP, an operation is allowed to be processed on more than one alternative machine. It has been proven to be a strongly NP-hard problem...

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Main Authors: Lei Wang, Jingcao Cai, Ming Li, Zhihu Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2017-01-01
Series:Scientific Programming
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9016303