An Incorporation of the Fuzzy Greedy Search Heuristic With Evolutionary Approaches for Combinatorial Optimization in Operations Management

Autor: Kaveh Sheibani
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation. 8:58-72
ISSN: 1942-3608
1942-3594
Popis: Although greedy algorithms are important, nowadays it is well assumed that the solutions they obtain can be used as a starting point for more sophisticated methods. This paper describes an evolutionary approach which is based on genetic algorithms (GA). A constructive heuristic, so-called fuzzy greedy search (FGS) is employed to generate an initial population for the proposed GA. The effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed hybrid method are demonstrated on permutation flow-shop scheduling as one of the most widely studied hard combinatorial optimization problems in the area of operational research.
Databáze: OpenAIRE