A discrete firefly meta-heuristic with local search for makespan minimization in permutation flow shop scheduling problems

During the past two decades, there have been increasing interests on permutation flow shop with different types of objective functions such as minimizing the makespan, the weighted mean flow-time etc. The permutation flow shop is formulated as a mixed integer programming and it is classified as NP-H...

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Main Authors: Nader Ghaffari-Nasab, Reza Ramezanian, Mohammad Kazem Sayadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Growing Science 2010-07-01
Series:International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations
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Online Access:http://www.growingscience.com/ijiec/VOL1/IJIEC_2010_7.pdf