• DocumentCode
    1738435
  • Title

    A method for solving large-scale flowshop problems by reducing search space of genetic algorithms

  • Author

    Yong, Zhao ; Sannomiya, Nobuo

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Sci., Kyoto Inst. of Technol., Japan
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    1776
  • Abstract
    It is important to force search algorithms in promising regions of the solution space when solving large-scale problems. Genetic algorithms with search space reduction are proposed to solve flowshop problems. Additional precedence constraints generated by heuristic rules are introduced to reduce the search space of the genetic algorithm. An improved crossover operator which preserves the constraints is proposed and compared with other standard crossover operators. The computation results show that the algorithm has a significant improvement as compared with the standard genetic algorithms
  • Keywords
    genetic algorithms; production control; search problems; crossover operator; genetic algorithms; heuristic rules; large-scale flowshop problem solving; precedence constraints; search space reduction; Biological cells; Convergence; Electronic mail; Genetic algorithms; Information science; Large-scale systems; Optimization methods; Processor scheduling; Robustness; Space technology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2000 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Nashville, TN
  • ISSN
    1062-922X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6583-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSMC.2000.886366
  • Filename
    886366