IRMA-International.org: Creator of Knowledge
Information Resources Management Association
Advancing the Concepts & Practices of Information Resources Management in Modern Organizations

Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Bi-Criteria Parallel Machine Scheduling

Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Bi-Criteria Parallel Machine Scheduling
View Sample PDF
Author(s): Kawal Jeet (D. A. V. College, India)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 27
Source title: Exploring Critical Approaches of Evolutionary Computation
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Muhammad Sarfraz (Kuwait University, Kuwait)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5832-3.ch007

Purchase

View Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Bi-Criteria Parallel Machine Scheduling on the publisher's website for pricing and purchasing information.

Abstract

Nature has always been a source of inspiration for human beings. Nature-inspired search-based algorithms have an enormous computational intelligence and capabilities and are observing diverse applications in engineering and manufacturing problems. In this chapter, six nature-inspired algorithms, namely artificial bee colony, bat, black hole, cuckoo search, flower pollination, and grey wolf optimizer algorithms, have been investigated for scheduling of multiple jobs on multiple potential parallel machines. Weighted flow time and tardiness have been used as optimization criteria. These algorithms are very efficient in identifying optimal solutions, but as the size of the problem increases, these algorithms tend to get stuck at local optima. In order to extract these algorithms from local optima, genetic algorithm has been used. Flower pollination algorithm, when appended with GA, is observed to perform better than other counterpart nature-inspired algorithms as well as existing heuristics and meta-heuristics based on MOGA and NSGA-II algorithms.

Related Content

Kamel Mouloudj, Vu Lan Oanh LE, Achouak Bouarar, Ahmed Chemseddine Bouarar, Dachel Martínez Asanza, Mayuri Srivastava. © 2024. 20 pages.
José Eduardo Aleixo, José Luís Reis, Sandrina Francisca Teixeira, Ana Pinto de Lima. © 2024. 52 pages.
Jorge Figueiredo, Isabel Oliveira, Sérgio Silva, Margarida Pocinho, António Cardoso, Manuel Pereira. © 2024. 24 pages.
Fatih Pinarbasi. © 2024. 20 pages.
Stavros Kaperonis. © 2024. 25 pages.
Thomas Rui Mendes, Ana Cristina Antunes. © 2024. 24 pages.
Nuno Geada. © 2024. 12 pages.
Body Bottom