An improved shuffled complex evolution algorithm with sequence mapping mechanism for job shop scheduling problems. Issue 8 (15th May 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zhao, Fuqing; Zhang, Jianlin; Zhang, Chuck; Wang, Junbiao
• Is Part Of: Expert systems with applications. Volume 42:Issue 8(2015)
• Page Start: 3953
• Page End: 3966
• Publication Date: 2015-05-15
• Subjects: Expert systems (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Systèmes experts (Informatique) -- Périodiques; Electronic journals; 006.33
• DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2015.01.007
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0957-4174

Abstract

<abstract xml:lang="en" abstract-type="author-highlights" id="ab005"> <title id="st105">Highlights</title> <sec> <p id="sp005"> <list id="l0005"> <list-item id="u0005"> <label></label> <p id="p0210">An Improved Shuffled Complex Evolution (ISCE) algorithm is proposed.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="u0010"> <label></label> <p id="p0215">The sequence mapping mechanism was presented.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="u0015"> <label></label> <p id="p0220">The sequence with job permutation, is adopted for encoding and decoding.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="u0020"> <label></label> <p id="p0225">A new strategy is used to improve the individual's evolution to overcome stagnation.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="u0025"> <label></label> <p id="p0230">The results show that the improved algorithm is effective to the job shop scheduling.</p> </list-item> </list> </p> </sec> </abstract>