Minimizing Total Tardiness on a Single Machine Using Ant Colony Optimization

Autor(en)
Andreas Bauer, Bernd Bullnheimer, Richard Hartl, Christine Strauss
Abstrakt

Ant Colony Optimization is a relatively new meta-heuristic that has proven its quality and versatility on various combinatorial optimization problems such as the traveling salesman problem, the vehicle routing problem and the job shop scheduling problem. The paper introduces an Ant Colony Optimization approach to solve the problem of determining a job sequence that minimizes the overall tardiness for a given set of jobs to be processed on a single, continuously available
machine, the Single Machine Total Tardiness Problem. We experiment with various heuristic information as well as with variants for local search. Experiments with 250 benchmark problems with 50 and 100 jobs illustrate that Ant Colony Optimization is an adequate method to tackle the SMTTP.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Rechnungswesen, Innovation und Strategie
Journal
Central European Journal of Operations Research
Band
8
Seiten
125-141
ISSN
1435-246X
Publikationsdatum
1999
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
101015 Operations Research, 502052 Betriebswirtschaftslehre
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/540ee71c-93d4-46e8-8751-08742b1e9efd