International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 39 - Number 5 |
Year of Publication: 2012 |
Authors: Baskar A, Anthony Xavior M |
10.5120/4815-7053 |
Baskar A, Anthony Xavior M . A New Heuristic Algorithm using Pascalís Triangle to Determine more than one Sequence having Optimal/ near Optimal Make Span in Flow Shop Scheduling Problems. International Journal of Computer Applications. 39, 5 ( February 2012), 9-15. DOI=10.5120/4815-7053
In this paper, an attempt is made to find a sequence having optimal or near optimal make span in a flow shop scheduling of ‘n’ jobs in ‘m’ machines using a newly proposed heuristic algorithm based on Pascal’s Triangle (for nCr) . It is simple and can be easily coded in any high level language to run in a computer for effective and fast computation. Also, the effectiveness of the new Heuristic is analyzed using few case studies in comparison with some of the popular Heuristics like RA Heuristics, Palmer Heuristics, Gupta Heuristics, CDS Heuristics and Johnson’s algorithm.