An Artificial Hormone-based Algorithm for Production Scheduling from the Bottom-up

Wilfried Elmenreich, Alexander Schnabl, Melanie Schranz

2021

Abstract

This paper presents a model for supporting a production scheduling system with an artificial hormone algorithm. The system consists of lots that have to undergo a number of processing steps on different machines. The processing steps for a lot are formalized in a recipe assigned to the lot type. Since the steps in the recipe have to be processed in order, the given system allows choice only in the context of selecting a particular machine for the next step and in changing the processing order of waiting lots at a machine. Optimization of such a job-shop scheduling system is an NP-hard problem. In the approach proposed by this paper, artificial hormone systems are used to express the urgency of a lot and the need for new lots at a machine type, thus providing a system using local information for optimization. Results indicate that the artificial hormone system provides an improvement of around 5% over a First Come-First Serve approach.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Elmenreich W., Schnabl A. and Schranz M. (2021). An Artificial Hormone-based Algorithm for Production Scheduling from the Bottom-up.In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-484-8, pages 296-303. DOI: 10.5220/0010243902960303

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart21,
author={Wilfried Elmenreich and Alexander Schnabl and Melanie Schranz},
title={An Artificial Hormone-based Algorithm for Production Scheduling from the Bottom-up},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2021},
pages={296-303},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010243902960303},
isbn={978-989-758-484-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - An Artificial Hormone-based Algorithm for Production Scheduling from the Bottom-up
SN - 978-989-758-484-8
AU - Elmenreich W.
AU - Schnabl A.
AU - Schranz M.
PY - 2021
SP - 296
EP - 303
DO - 10.5220/0010243902960303