To solve the problem of hybrid flow shop batch scheduling, a novel Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm with three level hierarchical structures was proposed ...

This report it is explored the ability of the Ant Colony Optimization to generate feasible solutions for several JSSP instances.

This paper presents an application of the Ant colony optimization metaheuristic to the job shop scheduling problem. A pheromone alteration strategy which ...

This paper presents an application of the global optimization technique called tabu search that is combined with the ant colony optimization technique to solve ...

This paper describes the implementation of an ACO model algorithm known as Elitist Ant System (EAS), applied to a combinatorial optimization problem called Job ...

A new optimization heuristic based on Ant. Colony Algorithm is proposed and its performance is compared with the dispatch rules. Keywords. Scheduling, Assembly ...

The experimental results show that ACO can perform effectively in the given DJSSPs; the adaptation mechanism of ACO can significantly improve its overall ...

Feb 5, 2013 · This paper proposes a heuristic method based on ant colony optimization to determine the suboptimal allocation of dynamic multi-attribute ...

This paper discusses the solution to the job-shop scheduling problem using the ant colony optimization algorithm.

In this paper, a distributed multi-agent scheduling system (MASS) based on co-operative approach is proposed to solve static and dynamic job shop scheduling ...