Sequencing in an assembly line with blocking to minimize cycle time
Operations Research
Minimizing Cycle Time in a Blocking Flowshop
Operations Research
An Intelligent Tuned Harmony Search algorithm for optimisation
Information Sciences: an International Journal
ICIC'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications: with aspects of artificial intelligence
Minimizing the total flowtime flowshop with blocking using a discrete artificial bee colony
ICIC'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications: with aspects of artificial intelligence
A differential evolution algorithm for lot-streaming flow shop scheduling problem
ICIC'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advanced Intelligent Computing
ICIC'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advanced Intelligent Computing
A three-phase algorithm for flowshop scheduling with blocking to minimize makespan
Computers and Operations Research
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Discrete harmony search algorithm for dynamic FJSSP in remanufacturing engineering
SEMCCO'12 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing
Optimizing blocking flow shop scheduling problem with total completion time criterion
Computers and Operations Research
Hybrid discrete harmony search algorithm for scheduling re-processing problem in remanufacturing
Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Flexible job shop scheduling using hybrid differential evolution algorithms
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A hybrid harmony search algorithm for the flexible job shop scheduling problem
Applied Soft Computing
Survey A survey on applications of the harmony search algorithm
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
An integrated search heuristic for large-scale flexible job shop scheduling problems
Computers and Operations Research
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In this paper, three hybrid harmony search (HS) algorithms, namely, hybrid harmony search (hHS) algorithm, hybrid globalbest harmony search (hgHS) algorithm and hybrid modified globalbest harmony search (hmgHS) algorithm, are developed for solving the flow shop scheduling with blocking to minimize the total flow time. Firstly, a largest position value (LPV) rule is proposed to convert continuous harmony vectors into job permutations. Secondly, an initialization scheme based on a variant of the NEH heuristic is presented to construct the initial harmony memory with certain quality and diversity. Thirdly, HS is employed to evolve harmony vectors in the harmony memory to perform exploration, whereas a local search algorithm based on the insert neighborhood is embedded to enhance the local exploitation ability. In addition, some new pitch adjustment rules are developed to well inherit good structures from the globalbest harmony vector. Based on a set of well-known benchmark instances, extensive computational experiments are carried out. Computational results show the effectiveness of the hybrid harmony search algorithms, especially the (hmgHS) algorithm, in solving the blocking flow shop scheduling with total flow time criterion.