An efficient search method for multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problems

Abstract

Flexible job shop scheduling is very important in both fields of production management and combinatorial optimization. Owing to the high computational complexity, it is quite difficult to achieve an optimal solution to this problem with traditional optimization approaches. Motivated by some empirical knowledge, we propose an efficient search method for the multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problems in this paper. Through the work presented in this work, we hope to move a step closer to the ultimate vision of an automated system for generating optimal or near-optimal production schedules. The final experimental results have shown that the proposed algorithm is a feasible and effective approach for the multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problems.