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A Two-Phase Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Solving Permutation Flow-Shop Scheduling Problem

by Ko-wei Huang, Chu-sing Yang, Chun-wei Tsai
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 48 - Number 1
Year of Publication: 2012
Authors: Ko-wei Huang, Chu-sing Yang, Chun-wei Tsai
10.5120/7311-9883

Ko-wei Huang, Chu-sing Yang, Chun-wei Tsai . A Two-Phase Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Solving Permutation Flow-Shop Scheduling Problem. International Journal of Computer Applications. 48, 1 ( June 2012), 11-18. DOI=10.5120/7311-9883

@article{ 10.5120/7311-9883,
author = { Ko-wei Huang, Chu-sing Yang, Chun-wei Tsai },
title = { A Two-Phase Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Solving Permutation Flow-Shop Scheduling Problem },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { June 2012 },
volume = { 48 },
number = { 1 },
month = { June },
year = { 2012 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 11-18 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume48/number1/7311-9883/ },
doi = { 10.5120/7311-9883 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Ko-wei Huang
%A Chu-sing Yang
%A Chun-wei Tsai
%T A Two-Phase Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Solving Permutation Flow-Shop Scheduling Problem
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 48
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%P 11-18
%D 2012
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

In this paper, a two-phase hybrid particle swarm optimization algorithm (PRHPSO) is proposed for the permutation flow-shop scheduling problem (PFSP) with the minimizing makespan measure. The smallest position value (SPV) rule is used for encoding the particles that enable PSO for suitable PFSP, and the NEH and Tabu search algorithms are used for initializing the particles. In the first phase, the pattern reduction (PR) operator is used in the PSO algorithm for reducing the computation time. In order to avoid a premature convergence, a regeneration operator is used for escaping to the local optimal and balancing exploitation and exploration in the second phase. Additionally, a simulated annealing (SA) algorithm is utilized for local search to improve the best solution after the PSO search process. Finally, the results show that PRHPSO is significantly faster than two PSO-based algorithms and presents large-sized benchmarks.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Particle Swarm Optimization Permutation Flow-shop Scheduling Problem Pattern Reduction Makespan Pattern Reduction Regeneration Operator