An Effective Immune Based Approach for the No-Wait Flow Shop Scheduling Problems with Multiple Machines

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For scheduling problems, no-wait constraint is an important requirement for many industries. As known, the no-wait scheduling problem is NP-hard and has several practical applications. This paper applies an immune algorithm to solve the multiple-machine no-wait flow shop scheduling problem with minimizing the makespan. Twenty-three benchmark problems on the OR-Library are solved by the immune algorithm. Limited numerical results show that the immune algorithm performs better than the other typical approaches in the literature for most of instances.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 97-101)

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2432-2435

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March 2010

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