Iterated Greedy Algorithms for Flow-Shop Scheduling Problems: A Tutorial

doi:10.1109/TASE.2021.3062994

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Iterated Greedy Algorithms for Flow-Shop Scheduling Problems: A Tutorial

2022-07-01

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Ziyan Zhao

MengChu Zhou *

Shixin Liu *

DOI：10.1109/TASE.2021.3062994

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An iterated greedy algorithm (IGA) is a simple and powerful heuristic algorithm. It is widely used to solve flow-shop scheduling problems (FSPs), an important branch of production scheduling problems. IGA was first developed to solve an FSP in 2007. Since then, various FSPs have been tackled by using IGA-based methods, including basic IGA, its variants, and hybrid algorithms with IGA integrated. Up until now, over 100 articles related to this field have been published. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no existing tutorial or review paper of IGA. Thus, we focus on FSPs and provide a tutorial and comprehensive literature review of IGA-based methods. First, we introduce a framework of basic IGA and give an example to clearly show its procedure. To help researchers and engineers learn and apply IGA to their FSPs, we provide an open platform to collect and share related materials. Then, we make classifications of the solved FSPs according to their scheduling scenarios, objective functions, and constraints. Next, we classify and introduce the specific methods and strategies used in each phase of IGA for FSPs. Besides, we summarize IGA variants and hybrid algorithms with IGA integrated, respectively. Finally, we discuss the current IGA-based methods and already-solved FSP instances, as well as some important future research directions according to their deficiency and open issues.

Keywords:

Tutorials

Job shop scheduling

Search methods

Optimization

Linear programming

Heuristic algorithms

Greedy algorithms

Flow-shop scheduling problem (FSP)

heuristic algorithm

iterated greedy algorithm (IGA)

review

tutorial

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