Review of Swarm Intelligence Algorithms for Multi-objective Flowshop Scheduling

Abstract

Swarm intelligence algorithm (SIA) is an important artificial intelligence technology, which has been widely applied in various research fields. Recently, adopting various multi-objective SIAs (MOSIAs) to solve multi-objective flow shop scheduling problem (MOFSP) has attracted wide research attention. However, there are fewer review papers on the MOFSP. Many new MOSIAs have been proposed to solve MOFSP in the last decade. Therefore, in this study, MOSIAs of MOFSP over the past decade are briefly reviewed and analyzed. Based on the existing problems and new trend of Industry 4.0, several new promising future research directions are pointed out. These research directions are: (1) new hybrid MOSIA; (2) MOSIA with high computational efficiency; (3) MOSIA based on machine learning and big data; (4) multi-objective approach; (5) many-objective flowshop scheduling.