Managing Genetic Search in Job Shop Scheduling

  • Authors:
  • Serdar Uckun;Sugato Bagchi;Kazuhiko Kawamura;Yutaka Miyabe

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

The Vanderbilt Schedule Optimizer Prototype (VSOP), which uses genetic algorithms as search methods for job shop scheduling problems, is discussed. A job shop is a facility that produces goods according to prespecified process plans, under several domain-dependent and common sense constraints. The scheduling of orders in a job shop is a multifaceted problem. VSOP uses domain-specific chromosome representations, recombination operators, and local enumerative search to increase efficiency. Experimental results from a fully implemented VSOP package are presented.