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Computers & Operations Research
Volume 32, Issue 3, March 2005, Pages 647-667
 
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Flow-shop scheduling for three serial stations with the last two duplicate

Ahmet BolatCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, Ibrahim Al-Harkan and Bandar Al-Harbi

Industrial Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, P.O. Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia

Available online 2 October 2003.

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Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of scheduling jobs for three serial stations with the last two duplicate, i.e., identical. The performance measure considered is the makespan, and a Branch and Bound and two heuristic procedures are proposed. Two dominance criteria are developed to produce the optimal schedule for the jobs sequenced so far. Extensive computational experiments reveal that the Genetic Algorithm can be used to obtain a group of effective solutions for any realistic size problem within small computation time.

Author Keywords: Scheduling; Serial and duplicate stations; Branch and bound; Genetic algorithm

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Problem description and formulation
3. Solution procedures
3.1. The HHA
3.2. The B&B algorithm
3.3. The GA algorithm
4. Computational results
4.1. Data generation
4.2. Evaluating algorithms over small size problems
4.3. Evaluating the GA and HHA over large size problems
4.4. Sensitivity analysis
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Appendix A. Presentation of the B&B algorithm
A.1. The B&B Algorithm (with frontier search strategy)
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