CONSTRAINT BASED SCHEDULING IN A GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR THE SINGLE MACHINE SCHEDULING PROBLEM WITH SEQUENCE-DEPENDENT SETUP TIMES

Aymen Sioud, Marc Gravel, Caroline Gagné

2010

Abstract

This paper presents a hybrid approach based on the integration between Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Constraint Based Scheduling (CBS) approaches for solving a scheduling problem. The main contributions are the integration of the CBS approach in the reproduction and the intensification processes of a GA autonomously. The proposed methodology is applied to a single machine scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup times for the objective of minimizing the total tardiness. A sensitivity analysis of the hybrid methodology is carried out to compare the performance of the GA and the integrated GA-CBS approaches on different benchmarks from the literature.

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Sioud A., Gravel M. and Gagné C. (2010). CONSTRAINT BASED SCHEDULING IN A GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR THE SINGLE MACHINE SCHEDULING PROBLEM WITH SEQUENCE-DEPENDENT SETUP TIMES . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-31-7, pages 137-145. DOI: 10.5220/0003060601370145


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@conference{icec10,
author={Aymen Sioud and Marc Gravel and Caroline Gagné},
title={CONSTRAINT BASED SCHEDULING IN A GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR THE SINGLE MACHINE SCHEDULING PROBLEM WITH SEQUENCE-DEPENDENT SETUP TIMES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={137-145},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003060601370145},
isbn={978-989-8425-31-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010)
TI - CONSTRAINT BASED SCHEDULING IN A GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR THE SINGLE MACHINE SCHEDULING PROBLEM WITH SEQUENCE-DEPENDENT SETUP TIMES
SN - 978-989-8425-31-7
AU - Sioud A.
AU - Gravel M.
AU - Gagné C.
PY - 2010
SP - 137
EP - 145
DO - 10.5220/0003060601370145