A New Manufacturing Service Selection and Composition Method Using Improved Flower Pollination Algorithm

作者：Zhang, Wenyu; Yang, Yushu; Zhang, Shuai^*; Yu, Dejian; Xu, Yangbing

来源：Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2016, 2016: 7343794.

DOI：10.1155/2016/7343794

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With an increasing number of manufacturing services, the means by which to select and compose these manufacturing services have become a challenging problem. It can be regarded as a multiobjective optimization problem that involves a variety of conflicting quality of service (QoS) attributes. In this study, a multiobjective optimization model of manufacturing service composition is presented that is based on QoS and an environmental index. Next, the skyline operator is applied to reduce the solution space. And then a new method called improved Flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA) is proposed for solving the problem of manufacturing service selection and composition. The improved FPA enhances the performance of basic FPA by combining the latter with crossover and mutation operators of the Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm. Finally, a case study is conducted to compare the proposed method with other evolutionary algorithms, including the Genetic Algorithm, DE, basic FPA, and extended FPA. The experimental results reveal that the proposed method performs best at solving the problem of manufacturing service selection and composition.

• 出版日期2016
• 单位浙江财经大学