• Title of article

    Lagrangian relaxationwithcutgenerationforhybridflowshopschedulingproblemsto minimize thetotalweightedtardiness

  • Author/Authors

    Tatsushi Nishi، نويسنده , , YuichiroHiranak، نويسنده , , MasahiroInuiguchi، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
  • Pages
    10
  • From page
    189
  • To page
    198
  • Abstract
    In thispaper,weaddressanewLagrangianrelaxation(LR)methodforsolvingthehybridflowshop scheduling problemtominimizethetotalweightedtardiness.FortheconventionalLR,theproblemrelax- ing machinecapacityconstraintscanbedecomposedintoindividualjob-levelsubproblemswhichcanbe solved bydynamicprogramming.TheLagrangiandualproblemissolvedbythesubgradientmethod.In this paper,aLagrangianrelaxationwithcutgenerationisproposedtoimprovetheLagrangianboundsfor the conventionalLR.Thelowerboundisstrengthenedbyimposingadditionalconstraintsfortherelaxed problem. Thestatespacereductionsfordynamicprogrammingforsubproblemsarealsoincorporated. Computational resultsdemonstratethattheproposedmethodoutperformstheconventionalLRmethod without significantlyincreasingthetotalcomputingtime.
  • Keywords
    Hybrid flowshop scheduling , Lagrangian relaxation , Cut generation , Dynamic programming
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Serial Year
    2010
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Record number

    927635