On optimizing a bi-objective flowshop scheduling problem in an uncertain environment

  • Authors:
  • Arnaud Liefooghe;Matthieu Basseur;JéRéMie Humeau;Laetitia Jourdan;El-Ghazali Talbi

  • Affiliations:
  • LIFL, Université Lille 1, UMR CNRS 8022, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex, France and INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, 40 av. Halley, 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France;LERIA, University of Angers, 2 bd. Lavoisier, 49045 Angers, France;ícole des Mines de Douai, IA department, BP 10838, 59508 Douai, France;LIFL, Université Lille 1, UMR CNRS 8022, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex, France and INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, 40 av. Halley, 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France;LIFL, Université Lille 1, UMR CNRS 8022, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex, France and INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, 40 av. Halley, 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

  • Venue:
  • Computers & Mathematics with Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Existing models from scheduling often over-simplify the problems appearing in real-world industrial situations. The original application is often reduced to a single-objective one, where the presence of uncertainty is neglected. In this paper, we focus on multi-objective optimization in uncertain environments. A bi-objective flowshop scheduling problem with uncertain processing times is considered. An indicator-based evolutionary algorithm is proposed to handle these two difficulties (multiple objectives and uncertain environment) at the same time. Four different strategies, based on uncertainty-handling quality indicators, are proposed in the paper. Computational experiments are performed on a large set of instances by considering different scenarios with respect to uncertainty. We show that an uncertainty-handling strategy is a key issue to obtain good-quality solutions, and that the algorithm performance is strongly related to the level of uncertainty over the environmental parameters.