• Title of article

    Infeasibilityhandlingingeneticalgorithmusingnesteddomainsfor productionplanning

  • Author/Authors

    MaristelaOliveiraSantos ، نويسنده , , SadaoMassago، نويسنده , , BernardoAlmada-Lobo ، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
  • Pages
    10
  • From page
    1113
  • To page
    1122
  • Abstract
    In thispaperwepresentageneticalgorithmwithnewcomponentstotacklecapacitatedlotsizingand schedulingproblemswithsequencedependentsetupsthatappearinawiderangeofindustries,from soft drinkbottlingtofoodmanufacturing. Findingafeasiblesolutiontohighlyconstrainedproblemsisoftenaverydifficulttask.Various strategieshavebeenappliedtodealwithinfeasiblesolutionsthroughoutthesearch.Weproposeanew scheme ofclassifyingindividualsbasedonnesteddomainstodeterminethesolutionsaccordingtothe level ofinfeasibility,whichinourcaserepresentsbandsofadditionalproductionhours(overtime). Within eachband,individualsarejustdifferentiatedbytheirfitnessfunction.Asiterationsare conducted, thewidthsofthebandsaredynamicallyadjustedtoimprovetheconvergenceofthe individuals intothefeasibledomain. The numericalexperimentsonhighlycapacitatedinstancesshowtheeffectivenessofthis computationaltractableapproachtoguidethesearchtowardthefeasibledomain.Ourapproach outperformsotherstate-of-the-artapproachesandcommercialsolvers.
  • Keywords
    Capacitated lot sizing and scheduling , Feasible solutions , Genetic algorithms , Nested domains
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Serial Year
    2010
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Record number

    927720