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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
Volume 47, Issue 12, Pages 3205-3217Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00207540701813210
Keywords
scheduling; flowshop manufacturing cell; sequence-dependent family setups; simulated annealing; meta-heuristics
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- National Science Council of the Republic of China, Taiwan [NSC 96-2221-E-211-009]
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This paper proposes a simulated annealing-based meta-heuristic to minimise makespan in a flowshop manufacturing cell with sequence-dependent family setup times. To escape from local minima, Cauchy function-rather than the Boltzmann function - is used during the annealing process. The effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed simulated annealing-based meta-heuristic is compared against the existing heuristics on a benchmark problem dataset used in earlier studies. These computational results show that the proposed simulated annealing-based meta-heuristic is highly effective as compared to the state-of-theart meta-heuristics for this problem on the same benchmark instances.
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