Evolutionary Search and the Job Shop
ISBN: 9783662117125
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Physica-Verlag HD
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: unlimited
Subjects: Business and Economics;

Production scheduling dictates highly constrained mathematical models with complex and often contradicting objectives. Evolutionary algorithms can be formulated almost independently of the detailed shaping of the problems under consideration. As one would expect, a weak formulation of the problem in the algorithm comes along with a quite inefficient search. This book discusses the suitability of genetic algorithms for production scheduling and presents an approach which produces results comparable with those of more tailored optimization techniques.


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