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Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE C 2010 Vol.11 No.10 P.767-777

http://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.C0910707


Feature-based initial population generation for the optimization of job shop problems


Author(s):  Jing Chen, Shu-you Zhang, Zhan Gao, Li-xin Yang

Affiliation(s):  State Key Lab of Fluid Power Transmission and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China, Top Vocational Institute of Information & Technology of Shaoxing, Shaoxing 312000, China

Corresponding email(s):   jingchen.zju@gmail.com

Key Words:  Scheduling feature, Job shop problem (JSP), Scheduling optimization, Scheduling knowledge


Jing Chen, Shu-you Zhang, Zhan Gao, Li-xin Yang. Feature-based initial population generation for the optimization of job shop problems[J]. Journal of Zhejiang University Science C, 2010, 11(10): 767-777.

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Abstract: 
A suitable initial value of a good (close to the optimal value) scheduling algorithm may greatly speed up the convergence rate. However, the initial population of current scheduling algorithms is randomly determined. Similar scheduling instances in the production process are not reused rationally. For this reason, we propose a method to generate the initial population of job shop problems. The scheduling model includes static and dynamic knowledge to generate the initial population of the genetic algorithm. The knowledge reflects scheduling constraints and priority rules. A scheduling strategy is implemented by matching and combining the two categories of scheduling knowledge, while the experience of dispatchers is externalized to semantic features. Feature similarity based knowledge matching is utilized to acquire the constraints that are in turn used to optimize the scheduling process. Results show that the proposed approach is feasible and effective for the job shop optimization problem.

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