Title :
Determining feasible operating schedules for a job shop scheduling problem based on bio-soft computing
Author :
Kim, Ikno ; Watada, Junzo ; Jeng, Don Jyh-Fu
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Inf., Production & Syst., Waseda Univ., Kitakyushu, Japan
Abstract :
Meta-heuristic methods, which are often used in order to deal with job shop scheduling problems, are also often applied to combinatorial optimization problems. On another front, bio-soft computing is a new way of computing associated with DNA molecules. It is a new massively parallel computation, compared to micro-soft computing. In this paper, a novel way of determining feasible operating schedules is proposed for a job shop scheduling problem, paying particular attention to machine sequences. This new study shows how the goal of deriving reliable solutions using bio-soft computing can be achieved, for more reliable solutions based on this new bio-soft computing approach. A sample of various types of job shop scheduling problems is selected and its feasible operating schedules are determined using the strengths of our proposed method.
Keywords :
combinatorial mathematics; job shop scheduling; optimisation; DNA molecule; bio-soft computing; combinatorial optimization problem; feasible operating schedule; meta-heuristic method; parallel computation; shop scheduling problem; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; DNA computing; Job shop scheduling; Manufacturing industries; Optimization methods; Organizing; Polynomials; Processor scheduling; Sequences;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Systems, 2009. FUZZ-IEEE 2009. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Jeju Island
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3596-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1098-7584
DOI :
10.1109/FUZZY.2009.5277148