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Scheduling hybrid flow shops with time windows

  • Fan Yang
  • Roel LeusEmail author
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Abstract

Hybrid flow shops can be encountered in various industrial settings. In this paper we develop methods for scheduling hybrid flow shops with hard time windows. Specifically, we study a two-stage hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with time windows to minimize the total weighted completion times. Each stage consists of one or more identical parallel machines, and each job visits two processing stages in series. Finding a feasible schedule with hard time windows is a challenging task in this setting, because it is NP-complete in the strong sense even for a single machine in a single stage. We propose two matheuristics to find an initial feasible solution by local branching. We also develop two schedule improvement procedures, one based on stage-by-stage decomposition, and one using adapted local branching. The performance of our methods is validated via extensive computational experiments.

Keywords

Hybrid flow shop Scheduling Time windows Matheuristic Local branching 

Abbrevations

AL

Adapted local branching

ALP

Job ordering in average starting time of the linear relaxation

ED

Earliest-deadline-first rule

FSSA

Feasible schedule search by artificial variables

ISR

Infeasible schedule repair

JFA

Job window heuristic and adapted local branching

JFS

Job window heuristic and stage-by-stage decomposition

JWH

Job window heuristic

RP

Random priority rule

SD

Stage-by-stage decomposition

\(\triangle _r^{AL}\)

Radius decrement in AL

\(\triangle _r^{ISR}\)

Radius increment in ISR

\(\triangle _t\)

Time increment in AL

\(G_{node}\)

threshold on the gap in a node in AL

\(K^{AL}\)

Predetermined number of rounds for AL

\(T_{ini}\)

Initialization time

\(T_{B}\)

Time limit for bottleneck stage in SD

\(T_{N}\)

Time limit for non-bottleneck stage in SD

\(T^{AL}\)

Time limit for AL

\(T_{node}\)

Time limit for each node in AL

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  1. 1.ORSTAT, Faculty of Economics and BusinessKU LeuvenLeuvenBelgium

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