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A genetic iterated greedy algorithm for the blocking flowshop to minimize total earliness and tardiness

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  • Bruno Athayde Prata

    (Federal University of Ceara)

  • Helio Yochihiro Fuchigami

    (Federal University of São Carlos)

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An important and realistic class of scheduling problems is considered in this paper: the total earliness and tardiness minimization in the blocking flowshop, where there is no intermediate buffer between machines. Blocking occurs when a completed item or product remains on the machine until the next machine is available. We proposed a new hybrid evolutionary algorithm: the Genetic Iterated Greedy Algorithm (GIGA). In our innovative solution approach, a genetic algorithm presents a hybrid crossover based on the Iterated Greedy metaheuristic. The hybrid crossover considers the Hamming distance as an indicator of the diversity of the current population. In the first generations, the crossover will adopt larger values for the destruction parameter, and this value is gradually reduced throughout the search process. Our proposal is compared to four competitive metaheuristics reported for earliness and tardiness flowshop. Two performance indicators are considered: the Average Relative Percentage Deviation (ARPD) and the Success Rate (SR). Based on the statistical analysis of the computational experimentation, our GIGA outperformed all the implemented algorithms of the literature with statistical significance. Concerning the performance indicators, GIGA achieved ARPD = 0.02% and SR = 83.5%, pointing to the superiority of the proposed solution approach.

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  • Bruno Athayde Prata & Helio Yochihiro Fuchigami, 2024. "A genetic iterated greedy algorithm for the blocking flowshop to minimize total earliness and tardiness," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 35(5), pages 2161-2174, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joinma:v:35:y:2024:i:5:d:10.1007_s10845-023-02147-8
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