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Evolutionary Search and the Job Shop: Investigations on Genetic Algorithms for Production Scheduling

By Dr. Dirk C. Mattfeld (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
Year
1996
ISBN
978-3-7908-0917-6, 978-3-662-11712-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-11712-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3855132 bytes)
Series
Production and Logistics
Edition
1
Pages
153\162
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
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Description

Production scheduling dictates highly constrained mathematical models with complex and often contradicting objectives. Evolutionary algorithms can be formulated almost independently of the detailed shaping of the problems under consideration. As one would expect, a weak formulation of the problem in the algorithm comes along with a quite inefficient search. This book discusses the suitability of genetic algorithms for production scheduling and presents an approach which produces results comparable with those of more tailored optimization techniques.

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