• Title of article

    Completiontimevarianceminimizationinsinglemachineandmulti-machinesystems

  • Author/Authors

    B. Srirangacharyulu، نويسنده , , G.Srinivasan، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
  • Pages
    10
  • From page
    62
  • To page
    71
  • Abstract
    In thispaperweconsidertheproblemofminimizingthecompletiontimevarianceof n jobs onasingle machine withdeterministicprocessingtimes.Weproposeanewheuristicandcomparetheresultswith existing popularheuristicsfortheproblem.Wealsoproposeamethodbasedongeneticalgorithms to solvetheproblem.Wepresenttheworstcaseperformanceanalysisoftheproposedheuristic.We also considertheproblemofminimizingthecompletiontimevarianceof n jobs on m identical parallel machines inbothrestrictedandunrestrictedversions.Aheuristicmethodandamethodbasedonge- netic algorithmsarepresentedforboththecasesandresultsofcomputationaltestingareprovided.Itis concluded thattheproposedmethodsprovidebetterresultscomparedtoexistingmethodsforthesingle machine caseaswellasforthemulti-machinecase.
  • Keywords
    Single machine scheduling , Completion time variance , Multi-machine scheduling , Heuristic , Genetic algorithms
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Serial Year
    2010
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Record number

    927622