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Metaheuristics for a scheduling problem with rejection and tardiness penalties

Published inJournal of scheduling, vol. 18, no. 1, p. 89-105
Publication date2015
Abstract

In this paper, we consider a single-machine scheduling problem (P) inspired from manufacturing instances. A release date, a deadline, and a regular (i.e., non-decreasing) cost function are associated with each job. The problem takes into account sequence-dependent setup times and setup costs between jobs of different families. Moreover, the company has the possibility to reject some jobs/orders, in which case a penalty (abandon cost) is incurred. Therefore, the problem at hand can be viewed as an order acceptance and scheduling problem. Order acceptance problems have gained interest among the research community over the last decades, particularly in a make-to-order environment. We propose and compare a constructive heuristic, local search methods, and population-based algorithms. Tests are performed on realistic instances and show that the developed metaheuristics significantly outperform the currently available resolution methods for the same problem.

Keywords
  • Scheduling
  • Metaheuristics
  • Order acceptance
  • Setups
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THEVENIN, Simon, WIDMER, Marino, ZUFFEREY, Nicolas. Metaheuristics for a scheduling problem with rejection and tardiness penalties. In: Journal of scheduling, 2015, vol. 18, n° 1, p. 89–105. doi: 10.1007/s10951-014-0395-8
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