Approach to Hybrid Flow-Shop Scheduling Problem Based on Self-Guided Genetic Algorithm

Wen-Zhan Dai; Kai Xia

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JACIII Vol.19 No.3 pp. 365-371

doi: 10.20965/jaciii.2015.p0365

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Approach to Hybrid Flow-Shop Scheduling Problem Based on Self-Guided Genetic Algorithm

Wen-Zhan Dai and Kai Xia

School of Information and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University
Hangzhou 310018, China

Received:

December 15, 2013

Accepted:

February 2, 2015

Published:

May 20, 2015

Keywords:

hybrid flow shop scheduling problem, genetic algorithm, estimation of distribution algorithm, bivariate probability model, self-guided genetic algorithm

Abstract

The effective self-guided genetic algorithm (SGGA) which we proposed is based on the characteristics of a hybrid flow shop scheduling problem. A univariate probability model based on workpiece permutation is introduced together with a bivariate probability model based on a similar workpiece blocks. An approach to updating a probability model parameters is given based on superior individuals. A novel probability calculation function is proposed taking advantages of statistical learning information provided by univariate and bivariate probabilistic model to calculate the probability of workpieces located in different positions. A method for evaluating the quality of individual candidates generated by GA crossover and mutation operators is suggested for selecting promising and excellent individual candidates as offspring. Simulation results show that the SGGA has excellent performance and robustness.

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W. Dai and K. Xia, “Approach to Hybrid Flow-Shop Scheduling Problem Based on Self-Guided Genetic Algorithm,” J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Inform., Vol.19 No.3, pp. 365-371, 2015.

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