A discrete colonial competitive algorithm for hybrid flowshop scheduling to minimize earliness and quadratic tardiness penalties

  • Authors:
  • J. Behnamian;M. Zandieh

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, 424 Hafez Avenue, Tehran, Iran;Department of Industrial Management, Management and Accounting Faculty, Shahid Beheshti University, G.C., Tehran, Iran

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Recently introduced colonial competitive algorithm (CCA) has shown its excellent capability on different optimization problems. The aim of this paper is to propose a discrete version of this method to determine a schedule that minimizes sum of the linear earliness and quadratic tardiness in the hybrid flowshops scheduling problem with simultaneously considering effects of sequence-dependent setup times and limited waiting time. In other word we assume that the waiting time for each job between two consecutive stages cannot be greater than a given upper bound. Also for this problem, a mixed integer program is formulated. Computational results are presented to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithms for problems with different structures.