A Discrete Differential Evolution Algorithm for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem

作者:Liu Fang*; Qi Yutao; Xia Zhuchang; Hao Hongxia
来源:World Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GEC 09), 2009-06-12 to 2009-06-14.

摘要

Differential Evolution (DE) Algorithm is a new evolutionary computation algorithm with rapid convergence rate. However, it does not perform well on dealing with job shop scheduling problems that have discrete decision variables. To remedy this, a Discrete Differential Evolution (DDE) Algorithm with special crossover and mutation operators is proposed to solve this problem. Under the skeleton of DE algorithm, The DDE algorithm inherits the advantage of rapid convergence rate. The experimental results on the well-known benchmark instances show the proposed algorithm is efficient in solving Job Shop Scheduling Problem.